Amazing Alumnus

Archie Shepp (BA 59) receives the

Goddard Award for Excellence. A host of talented alumni and international performers play the Haybarn Theatre. page 7spring | summer calendar For information on all programs and events | goddard.eduBREAKING DAWN Waves lap at the shore of the Puget Sound, situated just below Goddards campus in Port Townsend, Wash. Meet the Port Townsend staff members on page 16.May4 Discover Goddard Day, Plainfeld, Vt.15-June 22 350.org Climate Change Art Exhibit, Goddard Art Gallery, Montpelier, Vt.18 Alternative Media Conference, Plainfeld, Vt.18 Combustible Cabaret/Digital Vaudeville, Plainfeld, Vt.23-26 Outreach Event: AERO Conference, New York, N.Y.24 Outreach Event: Info Session and Performance at Chhandayan Center for Indian Music, New York, N.Y.30 Global Lens Film Series, Port Townsend, Wash.July1 Damien Echols Reading & Book Signing, Plainfeld, Vt.1-5 2013 Clockhouse Writers Conference East, Plainfeld, Vt.5 WGDR/Goddard Concert: Garifuna Collective, Plainfeld, Vt.12-19 EDU Residency, Plainfeld, Vt.12-20 MFAW Residency, Port Townsend, Wash.15-18 GEAR Conference, Plainfeld, Vt.26-Aug. 2 MFAIA Residency, Plainfeld, Vt.27-Aug. 3 EDU Residency, Seattle, Wash.JuNE9 Bread & Puppets The Birdcatcher in Hell, Plainfeld, Vt.13 Global Lens Film Series, Port Townsend, Wash.13-15 Board of Trustees Meeting, Plainfeld, Vt.22 WGDR/Goddard Concert: Sierra Leones Refugee All Stars, Plainfeld, Vt. 25 Great Small Works Traveling Toy Theatre, Plainfeld, Vt. 28-July 5 MFAW Residency, Plainfeld, Vt.august9-16 MA HAS Residency, Plainfeld, Vt.9-16 IMA Residency, Plainfeld, Vt.23-30 Undergraduate Program 1 (UGP1) Residency, Plainfeld, Vt.: BAS, HAS, IBA25 Outreach Event: UCLA Writers Faire, Los Angeles, Calif.sEptEMBER20-27 MA PSY Residency, Plainfeld, Vt.20-28 Undergraduate Program Residency, Port Townsend, Wash.: BAS, HAS, IBA20-28 MFAIA Residency, Port Townsend, Wash.OctOBER4-11 Undergraduate Program 2 (UGP2) Residency, Plainfeld, Vt.: BFAW, IBA8 Cornelius Eady Reading & Goddard Mini Lit Fest, Plainfeld, Vt.18-20 150th Anniversary Homecoming Weekend, Plainfeld, Vt.19 Discover Goddard DayCloCkworks spring | summer 2013 3mAnAGinG Editorsamantha kolberdESiGnErkelly CollarEditoriAl BoArdDustin Byerlykelly Collarmickey CroninJackie Hayessamantha kolberlauren moyephotoGrAphyelliott BentDavid ConklinFortson photographystefan HardDana HeffernTim lawsonfEAturE writErSDustin ByerlyDarrah CloudBrent Hallenbecksamantha kolberJohn odumJim sablemegan sandberg-ZakianSuBmiSSionSgoddard CollegeClockworks123 pitkin roadPlainfeld, VT 05667p 866.614.ALUM f 802.454.1174clASS/proGrAm notES clockworks@goddard.eduClockworks is goddard Colleges semiannual community magazine. We encourage submissions of news from alumni, faculty, staff and students.printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink. 2013 goddard College| fromthepresident |Goddardclockworks Spring/Summer 2013Earlier this spring, I participated in a panel discussion called Reinvention of Higher Education; Reinvention for Whom? sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education at the American Council on Education conference. The discussion, attended by college presidents from across the United States, was a critical reminder of our urgent need to respond to the new demands for accountability, afordability and relevance in higher education.Colleges now face extraordinary fnancial pressures, coupled with rapidly changing technology. Learners now operate in an age of unprecedented access to information and bodies of knowledge. With the advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) as one example of how higher education is responding to the call for accessibility and afordability, there has been much debate about their potential to democratize education on the one hand, or further exacerbate a growing educational divide on the other.MOOCs are a current innovation; they are educational tools. Content-delivery tools, however, need to be held within a framework that takes responsibility for contextualizing information with the direct experience that forms the basis of knowledgethe relationship between the knower and the known. That framework is at the heart of progressive education, and that is why Goddards voice is needed, now more than ever, in these national conversations about reform. For example, Goddards model of delivering education in the community, as we are doing in our Seattle Education program, ofers a much needed, innovative response that I believe is the next iteration of progressive education and an antidote to what ails higher education.Designed and founded in response to a request from bilingual education students, the Seattle EDU program was founded in the Columbia City neighborhood, one of the most ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse zip codes in the nation. Faculty work closely with students and community stakeholders to deliver the program in the community centers, local agencies and social halls that comprise the campus. It is a dual-language, multi-cultural program that supports learners as they to continue to work, parent and develop education in their own community. It is a learner/learning-centered, community-based model that honors and embraces place, family, culture and the arts. It is low-residency, responsive, fexible, afordable, and accessible to urban working adults.The Seattle EDU program is the reinvention I believe we need. It is a clear demonstration of Goddards commitment to progressive education, and a clear commitment to social change that aligns with the Goddard mission. As educator Paulo Freire said, Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry that human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.Let the reinvention continue, with Goddard at the heart of it.

Barbara Vacarr, PhDGoddards model of delivering education in the community, as we are doing in our Seattle Education program, offers a much needed, innovative response.Departments 2 events Calendar 3 From the president 5 College Briefs 11 On Air: WGDR Briefs18 Alumni Portfolio20 Class notes29 Faculty/staff notes32 in memoriam 33 In Remembrance: Walter Butts, 1944201334 Goddard in the worldFeatures 7 Creative Communities Legendary saxophonist Archie Shepp (BA 59) and a host of international performers draw crowds to the Haybarn Theatre. by brent hallenbeck, burli ngton free Press 12 Q&A with Paul Molyneaux Paul Molyneaux (IBA 97) came to Goddard a fsherman and left a writer and advocate. by dusti n byerly (ba ruP 01) 14 Academic Partnerships goddard reaches into the community to meet the needs of 21st-century students. by John odum (ba 97 98) 16 welcome to port Townsend! meet the staff members of the low-residency program in Port Townsend, Washington. by darrah cloud, mfaW faculty 28 Creative Weavings of Art A Goddard student brings graduates and students together for a new arts festival. by Ji m sable, Pri smati c Producti ons, i nc.| contents |submit your news! Send your news and notes to Goddard College, Clockworks Editor, 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfeld, Vermont 05667, or to clockworks@goddard.edu.7162812144 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013CloCkworks spring | summer 2013 5Plainfeld Campus Goes Fiber opticA three-year project that involves information Technology, Facilities and our Internet service provider is coming to fruition: a new fber optic internet connection at the Plainfeld campus. Workers dug a trench in front of The Manor in December, above, to bring fber optic data transmission into campus. The new connection, which goes live this spring, will be 15 times faster than the current connection. Goddard Gallery in montpelierGoddard is showcasing local artists at a pop-up art gallery in downtown Montpelier. The gallery is a welcome presence for goddard in montpelier and is a great way to reconnect with the community and alumni. From May 15June 22, the gallery will host 350.orgs Multi-Media Climate Change Exhibit, with an artist reception on June 7 during Montpeliers Art Walk. Stop by the gallery at 54 main Street, wednesdays and thursdays from 12 to 5 p.m., and fridays and Saturdays from 12 to 7 p.m. storyphone recordings now onlineReplete with photos and commentary by Jonathan Katz (BA RUP 71), two new Storyphone stories are now available online. Listen to ruth Greenwold deming (BA RUP 6466) tell her tale of coming-of-age in the 1960s at goddard.edu/Ruth, or larry reiner (BA RUP 56) share his memories of Goddard in the 1950s at goddard.edu/Larry. to record your own memories of Goddard, call the Storyphone at 1.802.230.4702. (Storyphone has a 3-minute time limit, so be prepared to speak at the beep!)what is GeAr? The Goddard education alumni Retreat, or GEAR, is the education programs professional development initiative that began last July thanks to a group of alumni. The 2nd annual GEAR is July 1518 at the Vermont campus. This years unconference theme is progressive education in Action: Passions and Challenges. There will also be roundtable conversations with fellow alumni and current students, an advisory session with program Director sue Fleming, and a chance to earn a certifcate for 20 hours of professional development. learn more and register at goddard.edu/GEAr.echols Coming to mFAw residencyDamien echols will read from his bestselling memoir, Life After Death, on July 1 at the Plainfeld campus. Convicted of murder, echols spent nearly 18 years on death row before his release in 2011. His story is featured in the documentary flms Paradise Lost and West of Memphis. A Q&A, reception and book signing will follow the reading. this event is free and open to the public as part of the mfA in creative writing programs Visiting writers Series.| college briefs |Kitchen wins Award Chef paul somerset received a local food sustainability award from Food Works at Two Rivers Center. He has brought the Plainfeld campus to almost 80% local foods, with a goal of becoming 100% locally sourced. watch a video about the sustainable food program at goddard.edu/food-program. Vermont staff members unionizeThe Vermont staff is now part of United Auto Workers Local 2322, based in Mass., which already represents the Colleges faculty. The vote was held via secret ballot on January 23 at the Plainfeld campus and conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.we look forward to engaging in a constructive dialogue with union representatives to preserve and improve a positive work environment for staff at Goddard College, says President Vacarr. Unfamiliar Picnic, an exhibit last December at the pop-up gallery in Montpelier.6 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013| college briefs |Design-build update In many tanGible ways, goddard is moving forward to bring the design buildings back to life. With a $4,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic preservation and generous alumni donations, architect David sellers recently completed organic Architecture at Goddard College, a report recommending next steps for a participatory, education-based renovation of the buildings.President Barbara Vacarr is meeting with alumni whose experiences with buildings led to careers in architecture and building, and a grant from the Block Foundation is allowing goddard to hire staff to continue planning and outreach to alumni, potential partners and community members. Plus, a community arts partnership, Central Vermont Arts, recently formed to help expand community ties and interest in reviving these buildings as arts spaces. the projects success depends on you! to get involved, call 802.322.1767 or contact gerard.holmes@goddard.edu.sustainability report shows marked ProgressSince Goddards sustainability team formed in 2007, the College has made great strides in energy effciency and reduced carbon emissions. The Vermont campus used 4,178 fewer gallons of heating oil in FY 2012 than in FY 2011 and reduced emissions from electricity by half a ton. Plans are underway for a wood chip boiler to heat the campus. Similar biomass and woodchip facilities at other colleges have reduced the use of heating oil by 90 percent per year. read the full report at goddard.edu/semiannual-sustainability-report.Alternative media Conference on may 18In 1970, the historic Alternative Media Conference brought 2,000 guests to goddard and changed a lot of lives. Now, 43 years later, the college is holding another Alternative Media Conference to honor its 150th Anniversary. Featured speakers include Thom Hartmann, Ellen Ratner, Maxie C Jackson III, and Andi Zeisler, among others. Along with keynotes, TED-style talks, and an evening program of Combustible Cabaret/Digital Vaudeville, Larry Yurdin (BA RUP 67) a coordinator of the original conference, will give a presentation on the 1970 event. wgDr kicks off the conference on May 17 with special live programming of the Thom Hartmann show with guest U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. register for the conference at goddard.edu/alternative-media.Got old t-shirts from your Days at Goddard?send in a photo of your old goddard College T-shirt to be added to a collection of T-shirt designs throughout the ages! we will start an album on Facebook and goddard.edu as part of our 150th Anniversary. Send your photo as a JpEG to clockworks@goddard.edu.Daughter of Alumna wins Grammy!Janis ian, daughter of the late Pearl Fink (BA 80), has won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Respected competitors included Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Ellen Degeneres and Rachel Maddow. Janis autobiography, Societys Child, took home the award. Congratulations, Janis! In memory of her mother Pearl, Janis and her brother established The Pearl Fink Scholarship at Goddard.never made a Gift to Goddard? Game on!An anonymous donor has offered Goddard $5,000 for the Annual Fund if we can fnd 50 new donors by June 30, 2013. Wont you join our new donor challenge? Help us meet our goal of 50 new donors by June 30, 2013. We accept online donations at goddard.edu/giving. for more information, contact lauren moye, chief advancement offcer, at lauren.moye@goddard.edu.Gamelan Finds new HomeIn february, Gamelan sulukala moved to its new home at the pratt Library in Plainfeld. Named Sulukala by Dennis Murphy (faculty, 67-81), Goddards frst teacher of this unusual assembly of instruments, Goddards gamelan is the perfect vehicle to engage students in the sensibility of another culture. Kathy and Steven Light (BA RUP 75) are holding open gamelan rehearsals on Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. to get involved: meg.hammond@goddard.edu. Hip Artists in residenceThis sprinG, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars return to the Plainfeld campus as Artists in Residence. They played a sold-out show at the Haybarn Theatre last September, part of the WGDR/Goddard College Concert series. The 7-person band will rehearse on campus for a month as they prepare to record their new album this June. A second concert is scheduled for June 22. tickets and more info at goddard.edu/concerts.BY BRENT HALLENBECK Burlington Free Press staff writer reprinted with permissionGoddard Fuels the Plainfeld Arts Scene Goddard College President Barbara Vacarr presented Archie Shepp (BA 59) with an award for excellence just before his Jan. 19 concert in the Haybarn Theatre, introducing him as a true legend not just in the world of jazz but in the black arts movement of the 1960s. When it was Shepps turn to speak, he returned the favor with praise for his alma mater.Article available in print onlyCloCkworks spring | summer 2013 7My stay at goddard was a transformative experience. It changed my entire life, the 75-year-old saxophone player said moments before he and his quartet would take the stage. It opened up a world for me.Shepp took the train from the heart of Philadelphia in 1955 to the small campus 10 miles east of Montpelier. He arrived on a full scholarship to study pre-law, but was so enthralled with the schools adventurous arts curriculum that he became a theater major. He wrote plays and poetry, became a social activist and fell into music, eventually playing with jazz greats John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor and earning recognition as one of the major players in the avant-garde jazz world of the 60s.The campus of shingle-sided buildings tucked in the woods just west of the village of Plainfeld grew as the back-to-the-land hippie movement of the 1960s took root, with free-thinking, creative types leaving the cities in search of a simpler life in rural Vermont. Reuben Jackson, an English teacher at Burlington High School and jazz DJ on Vermont Public Radio, said at Shepps appearance that the cab driver who brought him to campus in 1975 called Goddard Little Moscow in reference to the colleges left-leaning reputation. The small school ran into fnancial trouble and eliminated its 125-student residential undergraduate program in June 2002. Students continued to attend under Goddards low-residency program, but only for a few days at a time rather than entire semesters. The campus presence that made Plainfeld a haven for freewheeling creativity began to fade.Shepps concert is the latest sign that Goddard, and by association Plainfeld, is alive and well. Vacarr is overseeing an artistic renaissance permeating the campus and the town. The college presents monthly concerts at the Haybarn and is involved in a new organization called Central Vermont Arts thats seeking to strengthen the creative scene in and around Plainfeld.So much for the talk of the past decade that Goddard College is dead.I dont think that conversation is happening anymore, said Kris Gruen, a Goddard graduate whos director of the campus radio station and co-presenter of the colleges concert series. Theres a lot of energy and alumni celebration.An artistic historyYou could argue that tiny Plainfeld (population 1,243) is the epicenter of the Vermont arts scene. Starting with Shepp, just about anyone with Vermont ties whos known nationally in the arts-and-entertainment world passed through Plainfeld at some signifcant point in their formative creative years.Phish is known for starting in Burlington at the University of Vermont, but three of the four band members fnished their studies at Goddard and the one who didnt, Mike Gordon, has said he had his transcendent musical experience at a Goddard gig. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are based in Waitsfeld, but the rockers recorded Nothing But the Water at the Haybarn Theatre and wrote in the liner notes to their breakthrough album that the 1868 building provided a creative force that was greater than all of us combined.Playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy burst out of Goddard before earning Pulitzers and Oscar nominations. Goddard alumnus Jay Craven became one of Vermonts top concert promoters and has directed flms starring Michael J. Fox and Kris Kristoferson. Creative social agitators Bread & Puppet Theater left New York City in the 1970s and spent a few years in My education at Goddard inspired a fusion of the soul and intellect.ARCHIE SHEPP (BA 59)

Article available in print only8 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013Plainfeld at the invitation of Goddard before moving to their now-legendary home in the Northeast Kingdom.Plainfeld lacks the urban cache of Burlington, the hip energy of Brattleboro and the artsy reputation of Bennington. But it has the credentials, and the history.Its a very open, tolerant and progressive place, said Art Schaller, a professor of architecture at Norwich University who attended Shepps concert with his wife, Anne Schaller. Thats important in our times. Schaller is happy that Goddard is back in the concert business. Its bringing to Vermont a seminal jazz great, he said of Shepp, which is amazing because were so remote.The Goddard godsendPlainfeld and environs had next to nothing arts-wise when Mary Azarian and her then-husband, Tom Azarian, moved to the area in 1963, she said. The native of suburban Washington, D.C., said they were on their own back-to-the-land trip in those days. Gradually, like-minded creative people began to join them in central Vermont.Azarian began her career as an artist in the mid-60s, starting with woodcut note cards and posters as well as decorative pillboxes. She became best known as an illustrator of childrens books, winning the genres prestigious Caldecott Medal in 1999 for her book about famed Vermont photographer Snowfake Bentley.Goddard College has been a big part of Mary Azarians life throughout her 50 years in central Vermont. Goddard was an unlooked-for godsend when we frst moved here, in so many ways, she said as she made soup and pies on a recent Thursday in the kitchen of her home fve miles outside of Plainfeld.The familys pipes froze soon after moving to the area, Azarian said, so they went to Goddard for showers. They attended concerts on campus ranging from a show by banjo legend Earl Scruggs to fddle conventions that drew out-of-town friends for weekend-long parties. The Azarians three sons were just the right age to enjoy Bread & Puppets performances in the 70s. Azarian listens regularly to WGDR, the 40-year-old campus radio station with a devoted public-radio-like following.She was dismayed to see Goddard slide into relative obscurity, and shes thrilled to see the campus return to the public eye. Now 72 years old and a self-proclaimed solitary artist, Azarian has ventured to Plainfeld for a pair of performances at Goddard in the past few months one by West African guitarist Bombino and another by Bread & Puppet.It was really faltering, Azarian said. Goddard was a huge asset in this area, and its going back that way after years of almost not existing.Rallying around the artsKris Gruen welcomed the crowd to Shepps concert, noting that many of the nearly 400 people crowding the Haybarn Theatre were Goddard alumni. Theres a real calling of the tribe here tonight, he said.Gruen is part of that tribe, having graduated from Goddard in 1997. Much like Shepp, he attended Goddard with no plans to pursue music.I couldnt play a bongo, he said, adding that he was oversaturated by the musical world as the son of renowned rock n roll photographer Bob Gruen. But after taking a class in New Orleans traditional music with professor Don Glasgo, he left Goddard on track to become a professional musician. Along with his duties as the director of WGDR and co-presenter of the colleges concert series, Gruen is a singer-songwriter fnalizing plans for his third album.Music surrounded Gruen at Goddard. He remembers going to concerts by jazz heroes Lester Bowie and Kermit Rufns and missing one by a then-obscure folk-punk BRINGING DoWN ThE houSE An eclectic mix of artists has graced the stage of the Haybarn Theatre in recent years. From left, the folk-rock group Session Americana played on Feb. 22; Debo Band brought its Ethiopian pop music to Plainfeld on March 30; and Birds of Chicago performed North American roots music on Nov. 1.Article available in print onlyCloCkworks spring | summer 2013 9musician named Ani DiFranco who played within a circle of 14 listeners at the Haybarn. Gruen was at Goddard at the same time as central Vermont trumpeter Brian Boyes, who was part of the jazz-funk band viperHouse that a decade and a half ago was on the verge of becoming the next big musical export from Goddard.As lively as the artistic scene was, it covered a more serious fnancial strain that threatened Goddards survival. I had no sense that the college was at any point of change, Gruen said.He spoke over dinner on a recent Thursday night at Positive Pie on Main Street. With him was Meg Hammond, the Goddard events manager who with Gruen presents the concerts on campus.Hammond was co-owner of the Langdon Street Caf and recalls after opening that music venue and social gathering space in Montpelier in 2004 that customers would express their dismay at Goddards recent cuts. She also noticed the pool of potential employees at the caf start to dissipate with the loss of residential students.Vacarr, who became Goddard president in 2010, was a frequent customer at the Langdon Street Caf, according to Hammond, and a big supporter of the arts. The caf, which closed almost two years ago, was nearing its end when Gruen and Hammond began reviving the long-standing concert series at Goddard.They staged their frst show in the Haybarn in September 2011 with Luisa Maita, a Brazilian singer signed to the Vermont-based world-music label Cumbancha thats run by Plainfeld native Jacob Edgar. Hammond said some of those who attended met up with fellow members of the Goddard community they hadnt seen in 25 years.They followed that concert with one by internationally known Vermont folksinger Anas Mitchell, wife of Noah Hahn, who was a co-owner of the Langdon Street Caf with Hammond. That concert sold out.It was really exciting to see the community want to come, Gruen said. Goddard is not only raising its public profle through the concerts, the college is hosting renowned choreographer Liz Lerman as a visiting artist this spring.Previous administrations at Goddard built the low-residency program into a stronger position, Gruen said, and Vacarr took that a step further by introducing the community to the fact that the college remains important to the community artistically and fnancially. She said, This place has to matter to the place its sitting in, Gruen said of Vacarr.He and Hammond share that philosophy. As a creative-economy advocate, Hammond said, I realized other areas have ski resorts we have Goddard College. CWAs a creative-economy advocate, I realized other areas have ski resorts we have Goddard College.MEG HAMMOND, GODDARD EVENTS MANAGERGloBAl flAvoR Left, Omara Bombino Moctar, an internationally acclaimed Tuareg guitarist and singer-songwriter, performs at the Haybarn Theatre. Right, President Vacarr with Archie Shepp, who received the Goddard Award for Excellence.Goddards concert historyFrom its earliest days in Plainfeld, goddard has been a place for people to come to hear live music. Here is a small list of notable music events spanning 50 years:1945 Violinist Ernest Eniti1963 Violinist Florence Embretsen playing a 1650 Amati violin, old Time Fiddlers Association, Musicians John Cage and David Tudor1965 Premiere of Map Room, a performance art piece by robert rauschenberg 1966 An Impolite Evening with Paul Krassner, a noted counter-culture fgure and satirist1967 Amsterdam University string Quartet19711973 Blue Oyster Cult, Randy Newman, Earl Scruggs, Savoy Brown, Patti Labelle and the Bluebells, Black Sabbath1976 martin mull in concert 1980s phish springfests1989 phish at sculpture Building1995 Chopin under the stars concert by Jon nakamatsuArticle available in print only10 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013A New Pair of ShoesProgramming at WGDR, long defned by lack of formal direction and support, is now ft for a new pair of shoes to walk down Goddard's renewed academic road.In 2010, college leaders began to envision WGDR as a more deeply integrated component of its academic programs. The result of that re-envisioning is an innovative evaluation and assessment program called the Self Directed Inquiry (SDI), which began on March 1.The sDi combines the aims and values of the Colleges mission, its programmatic criteria and its strategic plan, with best community radio practices set forth by the national Federation of Community Broadcasters and the national Center for media Engagement. The program was developed collaboratively with the support of the Programmer Advisory Committee and the greater WGDR programmer community at large. As part of the SDI, every programmer now submits a study/show plan and self-evaluation, and participates in an annual review. The goal is for the SDI to support and monitor the growth and practice of each programmer while improving the listeners experience with more focused and intentional programming.ON-AiRwgDr Briefsinaugural Columnon-Air is a new standing feature in Clockworks magazine. Thank you to Training Coordinator Jackie Batten, Programmer Support Coordinator Leah Xylona, and WGDR Director Kris Gruen for compiling these notes. Look for the next On-Air in the next issue, or tune in for real at 91.1 FM Plainfeld, 91.7 FM Hardwick, or stream live at wgdr.org.WGDR was established in 1973 as a unique, college-based community radio station serving the central Vermont region from the Goddard campus in Plainfeld, Vt. WGDR/WGDH now operates as a true hybrid radio station, supported both by the college and surrounding communities. Over 60 local volunteers contribute to each weeks broadcast, providing music, news and public affairs programming.Training Program News The training program welcomed 12 new programmers to the wgDr/wgDH community in the last year. In November, the station partnered with Cabot Arts to broadcast A Day in the Life, a Beatles-focused radio documentary series produced by Cabot High School music students. This project inspired a revamped version of wgDr/wgDHs Community Based Learning curriculum. Now, under the guidance of an experienced programmer, students create radio segments covering a wide range of topics, including music, flm and current affairs. students present their segments and learn on-air broadcasting techniques mid-semester, and complete the semester by taking the programmer exam.Below, wGdr training coordinator Jackie Battentalks with a group of cabot high School students on site in the stations production studio.Joining the Sound CloudWgDr has joined and is now archiving shows and interviews on sound Cloud (soundcloud.com/wgdr), an audio social networking site where a global community of listeners comment, interact, and learn more about all of the radio programs produced at Goddard. On Feb. 14, woman stirred radio host merry gangemi interviewed Davida Singer, who is nominated for the 2013 Lambda Poetry Award. listen to merry Gangemi on woman Stirred radio, plus lots of other archived shows at wgdr.org/archive-2. CloCkworks spring | summer 2013 11PAul MOlyNeAux ReAChed OuT TO uS last year in response to a question we asked in our winter annual appeal. The question was Where would I be without Goddard? In addition to his gift to the Annual Fund, Paul included a brief answer to our question. Intrigued by his story, I followed up with him. Read this interview to learn how Paul, after years as a commercial fsherman, came to Goddard, studied writing and literature, and became a successful writer and advocate for sustainable aquaculture, and how this brought his family closer together.dustin Byerly: can you tell me a bit about your background?paul molyneaux: After graduating from high school I worked in the commercial fshing industry. In the late 80s, I quit the industrial fsheries and moved to Downeast Maine where I read Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka and other sustainable agriculture thinkers. I tried to apply the principles of human-powered food production to fsheries. I built a dory, an ocean-worthy rowboat, and worked along the coast under sail and oar power. All was going well until the fsheries I relied on, periwinkles and sea urchins, took a downturn and I saw the pattern of depletion repeating itself. I knew I had to do something diferent, and I thought it was time to write.dB: how did you fnd Goddard?pm: I just headed west on Route 2 until I came to the sign that said, Goddard Collegehahaha!A neighbor of mine had gone to Goddard and told me about it. I had an appreciation for education, but not for institutions, or sitting inside, and so Goddard seemed like the perfect place for me. I inquired for information but could not Alumnus Spotlightwith Paul Molyneaux (IBA 97) BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP 01 AND ALUMNI OUTREACH COORDINATOR)A lIfE lESS oRDINARy Paul Molyneaux sails with his children, Asher and Oona, left. Posing with his wife, Regina Grabrovac, and their kids in front of the log cabin theyre building behind their home in East Machias, Maine. The family is working to create a peaceful living space without electricity.12 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013aford to go. Then, in 1995, the federal government launched the Fishermens Retraining Program. I qualifed and was able to go to Goddard.dB: what was your experience at Goddard like?pm: I was something of a purist when I went to Goddard. At the time, I had no credit cards, no telephone and no e-mail. I lived in a 16-foot diameter yurt in the middle of 30 acres. I didnt have a vehicle worthy of the trip, so I hitchhiked to the residencies. Residencies were by far the best part of any semester. For those eight days, I indulged in orgies of ideas, bouncing of all the amazing people. Then I would go home and type all my work on a manual Royal typewriter.I worked with [former faculty member] Rob Tarule (MA GGP 83) and enjoyed him immensely; he was just what I needed in the shift from fsherman to writer. My fnal semester, I worked with [former faculty member] Beth Parkhurst, the jewel of my Goddard experience. Working with Beth was like working with a Zen master who would only speak to me in kans. She would say, You missed something. I would say, What? She would say no more. Drove me crazy, but wow, she pushed me to dig deep into stories to question all assumptions. Writing is a gift, and Beth taught me how to use it with skill, and most importantly, how to unearth the truth of a story.dB: did your Goddard education help you in your career?pm: Coming out of Goddard I intended to write novels. A year after I graduated, I was writing Outdoor columns for The New York Times, had my frst book ofer, and was supporting my family as a writer. In 2003, I won the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship. In 2005 I published my frst book, The Dorymans Refection. Following that, I used my aquaculture research to lay the groundwork for my second book, Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans. In 2007, I won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which funded a trip around the world in search of sustainable fsheries. So yes, I think Goddard helped fuel all that.dB: looking back, what does your Goddard education mean to you?pm: Goddard gave me the best educational experience of my life: self-directed, yet demanding. dB: A lot of your writing and research has focused on sustainable fsheries and aquaculture. Since you frst started looking into this subject, how have things changed? pm: Nothing fundamental has changed since I started looking into this. When people talk about sustainability, the frst thing to do is identify what they are trying to sustain: economic growth or cultures and ecosystems. My books get into this more deeply, but essentially the drive to sustain economic growth through industrial fsheries and aquaculture, the kind of food production that fts the multinational business model, depletes resources and destroys cultures. The speculators in these businesses often rely on start-up subsidies, particularly unlimited clean water, and the ability to pass risk on to the public and the voiceless wild species. A disproportionately small amount of the available money goes into research for truly sustainable and proftable aquaculture such as land-based aquaponics and online marketing development to aid artisanal fshers. But these projects are moving forward. dB: what do you see as some of the biggest challenges?pm: Changing what we believe. Belief often seems impervious to logic.dB: i know that you just had a new book published. could you tell us a little bit about the book?pm: When I couldnt publish my third fsheries book, I started having many personal issues fnancial, marital, etc. My son, Asher, age 7 at the time, asked if we could hike the Appalachian Trail (AT). I said, we could think about it. We did, and on March 9, 2010, a few days before his eighth birthday, we set out to thru-hike the AT. My wife took my place with him for 260 miles, and my daughter joined us for 600 miles, and after seven months on the trail we scaled Mt. Katahdin.My son is the youngest Mainer to hike the AT. Upon our return, I wrote down the story. I asked him to do a drawing for every day we were on the trail, and now, three years later, we are about to set out on a book tour for A Childs Walk in the Wilderness, illustrated with 40 of Ashers drawings.This is my frst book that is not about fsheries, and it is doing very well. And, rather than my writing separating me from my family, as it has often done, this work the trail, the book, everything has brought us closer together. CWGoDDARD MEMoRIESPaul enjoys his 1997 graduation from Goddard, above, third from left. Residencies were by far the best part of any semester, he recalls. For those eight days, I indulged in orgies of ideas, bouncing off all the amazing people. Then I would go home and type all my work on a manual Royal typewriter.Check out Pauls new book in the Alumni Portfolio on page 18.CloCkworks spring | summer 2013 13Academic Partnershipsmeeting the needs of 21st-Century studentsAs the global economy and the information culture evolve, meeting the needs of students in higher learning settings has also been forced to evolve. Goddard College has been at the forefront of the distance learning revolution since 1963. Now, the college is at the forefront of academic partnerships collaborations with an array of organizations and educational institutions that take the classroom directly into communities and professional workplaces.In Game Changers, a collection of essays published by Educause, Daniel Pianko and Josh Jarrett suggest that breaking up the iron triangle of access, quality outcomes and education costs is crucial for the future of higher education, and that academic partnerships such as those undertaken by Goddard are the means to that end. According to Pianko and Jarrett, the best of these partnerships appear to be simultaneously expanding access, improving quality and delivering fnancial sustainability.Curricula based on academic partnerships have particular appeal for nontraditional students a rising demographic already served by Goddards educational paradigm. According to U.S. Department of Education estimates, up to 75 percent of currently enrolled postsecondary students are defned as nontraditional, with distance education courses accounting for an estimated 12.2 million enrollments nationwide. Already a leader in distance learning, Goddards early start on emphasizing academic partnerships make Goddard particularly well-suited to meet the needs of the 21st-century student.Partnership Manager and Admissions Counselor Heather Labor explains, students can bring in credits theyve earned in other professional training programs and apply them toward a bachelors degree at Goddard. A partnership like this, she says, honors their work outside the classroom. It says, this is equal to college credit.Labor cited the example of the Birthwise partnership. Students who train at Birthwise, a midwifery school in Maine, can earn up to 45 semester credits for their work there, which are applied to meeting degree requirements in programs such as health arts and sciences. Along with the benefts to students and the college itself, the partners providing similar professional training see the advantages on their side as well. Kate G. Stephenson, executive director of Vermonts Yestermorrow Design/Build School, notes the easy academic synergy between the two institutions.We have had a number of students over the years who have taken courses at Yestermorrow while also studying at Goddard through their IBA program, and with the launch of their BA in Sustainability studies, there seem to be more students interested in exploring issues of sustainability related to the built environment, Stephenson observed. Yestermorrow is not a degree-granting school, which, adds Stephenson, allows some of our students the opportunity to pursue a bachelors degree through Goddard.Academic relationships are not limited to other academic institutions. Labor took particular pride in a new partnership with the Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont.We are going into their school district and ofering a three-credit course where educators are doing individualized study and getting a grasp on what we do at Goddard so well.Labor explained that the enthusiasm isnt limited to the student educators. The administrators there have been so supportive. Theyre excited about this its a diferent way for them to ofer professional development. For Goddard, its wonderful, she says. Educators can take the course four times and then bring 12 credits into Goddards Education Program.On the other side of the nation, Erin Fristad, Watch a video of Erin Fristad talking about Port Townsends partnerships at goddard.edu/Video-partnershipsBY JOHN ODUM (BA 97 98)14 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013director of West Coast academic and public partnerships, notes their numerous partnerships with regional community colleges such as Shoreline Community College, Everett Community College, Peninsula College, and the beginnings of conversations with community colleges in northern California. In addition, she points out the expansion of what she terms resource, or programming partnerships.Those are partnerships with the Madrona Mind/Body Institute, the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, and the Port Townsend Film Institute, for example. Partners, claim Fristad, who, through their areas of expertise, enhance programming opportunities for Goddard students.Fristad explained, Madrona Mind/Body faculty certifed in Nia, in partnership with our faculty, taught an applied physiology class for our students, so it was a real collaborative experience. And last September, The Marine Science Center taught our new undergrads a workshop called The Perversion of Plankton and the Secret Life of Barnacles. It was a hands-on class where students collected specimens and worked in the lab. It was one of many collaborations available to students during our frst undergraduate residency here in Port Townsend.The potential for academic and resource partnerships are everywhere. Port Townsend School of Woodworking co-founder Tim Lawson recalls the easy, organic way in which his institutions partnership with Goddard took shape.The Goddard residency site and the Port Townsend School of Woodworking are both located at Fort Worden State Park. Both organizations have been active in the development of Fort Worden as a lifelong learning center, and I worked with Erin in the Fort Worden Partners group. There was a lot of conversation about how we could work together and, in a clif-top walk, Erin and I started to explore the idea of a sculpture jam.To Lawson, the pairing is a natural ft. As Goddard started to explore a wider array of partnerships, he recalled, it was natural that we signed a transfer credit agreement for the graduates of our 12-week woodworking foundation course. The primary beneft of this has been a signifcant jump in the credibility of the [woodworking] school.Academic partnerships are also afording students greater opportunities for cross-cultural learning, as well as furthering each institutional partners own goals for enriching their curricula. The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding has a series of lectures they provide for their students, and, according to Fristad, theyre interested in inviting the Goddard community and students to come to those events. A faculty member in our MFA in Goddards East and west coast partners Birch Tree Center Birthwise school of midwifery Bon Appetit Brookdale Community College Camden County College Community College of Vermont everett Community College Franklin Central supervisory union institute for integrative nutrition lordes institute of Holistic study madrona mind/Body national elevator industry education program peninsula College port Townsend Film institute port Townsend marine science Center port Townsend school of woodworking portland institute for Contemporary Art rowe Camp and Conference Center shoreline Community College Teacher institute at La Academia Vermont Center for integrative Herbalism warren County Community College Yestermorrow Design/Build schoolhElPING hANDS Jenna Schmitz (BA HAS 13), a graduate of the Birthwise Midwifery School in Maine, works with a traditional birth attendant in an outreach program she initiated in Haiti. see Partnerships, page 31TAKING WING A lectern designed by Tim Lawson, from the Port Townsend School of Woodworking, used at Goddards Fort Worden learning center.CloCkworks spring | summer 2013 151 erin Fristad, Director of west Coast Academic and Public PartnershipsErin was working on a fshing boat in Alaska when she was reached by land: Goddard College was calling; they wanted her to set up a campus in Port Townsend and run it. Her response? Well, youll have to wait until salmon season is over!And that is how Goddards occupation of Fort Worden essentially began.Erin graduated from the Vermont campus in 2003 with her MFA in poetry. Back home, she attended a meeting of alumni in Seattle, at which then-president Mark Schulman expressed interest in bringing Goddard to the Northwest. Goddard accepted many students from the area but they rarely enrolled because of the distance from Vermont. If the students couldnt get to Goddard, Goddard would come to the students.The Port Townsend community has embraced Goddard, due mainly to Erins eforts: We dont serve education to people: we ask them what they want and need then we create it with them.In the midst of all this, Erin has managed to keep publishing her poetry in numerous anthologies, and she recently published a chapbook titled The Glass Jar.2 Joyce Gustafson, operations managerBefore coming to Goddard, Joyce worked as special assistant to the director of the University of Californias Education Abroad Program, which included oversight for the international exchange program on 10 UC campuses in 40 countries. She also served as director of development for Direct Relief International, a disaster relief organization based in Santa Barbara, Calif., that provides medical assistance to people afected by poverty, disaster and civil unrest around the world.She served on the board of the nonproft, Friends of Tibetan Poets, artists, sailors, bakers, landscape architects, organic farmers and techies: Meet the staff of the low-residency program in Port Townsend, Washington.19261078354to Port TownsendWelcomeBY DARRAH CLOUD, MFAW FACULTY16 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013Womens Association, an organization she helped found 25 years ago. She has also worked with tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka and Thailand, and with underserved street kids in Brazil.An avid sailor, Joyce has spent years at sea including several extended ocean passages with her husband. Joyce has held a 100-ton U.S. Coast Guard Masters license for three decades. Whenever she hears the foghorn at Fort Worden, she sighs with relief that shes sailing The Help Desk instead of a boat. 3 Agnes Figueroa-martinez, it specialistAgnes passion for all things techie started as early as 8 or 9 years old. To her mothers chagrin, she dismantled practically every electrical device in the house to see how it was built and how it worked. A self-taught geek with over 15 years of experience, she managed IT operations at Bellevue College in Washington, and she teaches online in addition to her work at Goddard. Agnes lives with one foot in her native Puerto Rico, taking care of her parents, and another in her beloved Seattle.Says Agnes, in between panicky students whove lost work in the catacombs of the Internet: Instructional technology, which goes beyond the how-to tech training and moves into the applied use of technology in pedagogyis what Im very passionate about. I like the challenge of fnding the best tool or way to adapt a tool to a particular curricular need. I very much enjoy the rewards of that aha moment.4 Gloria Lamson, student Life Coordinator Glo is an artist when shes not helping students locked out of their rooms while standing in their towels. She creates temporary site-specifc installations in nature and architectural environments, which she documents with photographs. She holds an MFA in arts and consciousness.What motivates her in her artwork? I am moved to use art-making to weave together what is within me, with what is around me. Interested in bringing art to life, I look to the process of art to shape, hold and/or carry that which is begging my attention. For me, it is a most profound and intimate way to dialogue with my life and the world. 5 Carmiel banasky, residency AssistantCarmie grew up in Portland, Ore. She earned her BA in creative writing from the University of Arizona. After college, she worked on the Kerry campaign in Oregon for six months. Burned out and disappointed, she moved to Mississippi, where, for two years, she tried to start a Planned Parenthood BC clinic. Since earning her MFA from Hunter College in 2010, where she studied with Colum McCann, Nathan Englander and Peter Carey, shes been working at Goddard and writing at artist colonies across the country.Her secret? She makes a killer molasses cookie. 6 Christopher robinson, residency AssistantChris grew up in the Seattle area, playing video games, skateboarding and reading sci-f novels. He earned degrees in English and philosophy at the University of Washington, fell in love with poetry on a study abroad program in Rome, then taught ESL, both in Seattle and in Seoul, South Korea, and performed in a hip-hop group. He holds an MA in creative writing from Boston University and MFA in poetry from Hunter College. There, he met famed memoirist and Goddard alumna Mary Karr (MFAW 79) and became her assistant.Chris writing has appeared in The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Last year he was a fnalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize. His secret wish is to have Ezra Pounds hair.7 Julie miles, Academic services specialist A landscape architect in Seattle for the past 15 years, Julie hails from Maryland, just outside of D.C., and spent her childhood and early adult years exploring the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states. She has a BA from Dickinson College and a master of landscape architecture from the University of Virginia. She has three kids and loves hiking and kayaking in Port Townsend with her family. She is currently reading Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World.8 marc Gordon, integrated enrollment specialistMarc moved to the area right after 9/11. He and his wife have two wild yet gentle boys and a small organic blueberry farm and artisan cidery (fnnriver.com) where they own and operate a guest cottage/vacation rental called the Huckleberry House. Marc travels the Northwest meeting alumni, faculty and transfer counselors at regional community colleges, and most importantly shares with prospective students the incredible opportunity that Goddards Port Townsend site ofers. The reason he walks so slowly? Im steeped in the gravity of life9 Lori margaret, student Life Coordinator Lori recently left Goddard to pursue other interests, but her contributions were a tremendous help to the Port Townsend site, right from the time she started in 2007 when Goddard frst launched the MFAIA program. Her role evolved in conjunction with program growth and she contributed greatly to the development of a student services department. Lori was part of the Goddard team in Seattle and supported the launch of the BA & MA in Education Program there. She was key, through her tireless eforts at community building and well-honed skills as a logistics wizard, to the development see Port townsend, page 27CloCkworks spring | summer 2013 17| alumni portfolio |RavEN OR cROwJoshua Amses (BFAW) Raven or Crow is both an adultolescent noir and a story of mistakes rooted in the ambivalence of being young and without direction.Fomite Press, 2013a cREativE appROach tO thE cOMMON cORE staNdaRds Harry Y. Chaucer (BA RUP 72) A Creative Approach shows that schools can cultivate genius while ensuring that all students realize the core skills that are crucial to all citizens.Rowan & Littlefeld, 2012wax Phil Duncan (MFAW-WA 11)Raised from the grave by the shadowy fgure of Dr. Blankenship, Yancey Muncey is now back in high school, hanging out with his best friend, and making plans for the upcoming Halloween carnival. RainTown Press, 2012giRltRuth fROM thE BEllyStacey Ginsburg (IMA 08)Girltruth from the Belly is a coming of age memoir that Stacey worked on while in the IMA program at Goddard.Bone Soup Press (and Lulu.com), 2012REtuRN tO fiRst pRiNciplEsBudd Hallberg (MA GGP 80)This examines the events that have caused the United States to depart radically from its foundational roots.AuthorHouse, 2012 Mystic fOOl Andy Hill (IBA 08) A spirited romp across Southeast Asia, Mystic Fool follows the exploits of a young man, led by alchemy and alcohol, as he explores the inner and outer planes.CreateSpace, 2013NEvada Imogen Holding (MA PSY 13)Nevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Grifths, a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail.Topside Press, April 2013BEautiful sNaRE Laurie (Wagner Buyer) Jameson (MFAW 01)Beautiful Snare, the frst book in the Spirited Women Series, weaves the mysteries of love, loyalty and war into a compelling and timeless tale. Seven Oaks Publishing, 2012wiNgs, wORMs, aNd wONdERKelly Johnson (IMA 12) This book, which grew out of Johnsons graduate thesis at Goddard, is a guide for creatively integrating gardening and outdoor learning into childrens lives. 1984 Printing, 2012 siMply MuRdERChris Mackowski (MFAW 01)Simply Murder recounts the Battle of Fredericksburg, fought Dec. 13, 1862, and includes information and insights about the battlefeld itself.Savas Beattie Press, 2012thE ONE i lEft BEhiNd Jennifer McMahon (BA 91)Haunting and harrowing, The One I Left Behind ofers enthralling suspense but also so much more: a richly poignant tale of the families were born into and the ones we build ourselves. Megan Abbott, author of Dare MeWilliam Morrow, 2013falliNg Off thE wiNdRichard Meibers (MA 75)A modern version of a Joseph Conrad adventure. Meibers has created an engaging tale of life on a Caribbean island where his challenges refect our own. -Dwight HarshbargerMartin and Lawrence Press, 2012pathfiNdiNg thROugh MultiplE pERsONality Stephen R. Merriman (BA ADP 79)This book presents a panoramic, comprehensible approach to the treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder, from pre-diagnosis through fnal integration, covering all stages along the way.Four Rivers Press, 2012a childs walK iN thE wildERNEss Paul Molyneaux (IBA 97)A funny, poignant, clear-eyed account of Pauls and his sons modern-day wilderness adventure: thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail over the course of seven months. Read how they handled fooded trails, snowy weather, bear country, steep climbs, temper tantrums and getting lost.Stackpole Books, 201318 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013pRactically NOthiNg Carla Occaso (MFAW 11)A collection of short stories and essays from New England depicting the joys, pitfalls and lies that make up childhood, parenthood, pet ownership, family, aging and death.Self-published, 2012 NatishMa, shaMaN Of thE chEsapEaKEs, fRiENd Of thE ROaNOKE cOlONy Richard Proescher (BA ADP 81) What happened to the Lost Colony? In this novel, the world of a Native American culture is revealed at the time of frst contact with English people.Booklocker.com, Inc., 2013sO yOu waNt tO BE a lEadERAl Restivo (MA 85) This book helps established leaders enhance their understanding of leadership and mentors prospective leaders.Silver Thread Publishing, 2012 MaKaRa: a NOvEl Kristen Ringman (MFAW 08) A novel about Fionnuala, a part-human, part-seal deaf woman who falls in love with Neela, a hearing woman in India. Handtype Press, 2012 thE siN EatER aNd OthER stORiEs Elizabeth Frankie Rollins (MFAW 01)An adulterous husband, the bubonic plague, and growing tails: damage sufuses the evocative stories of this debut collection.Queens Ferry Press, 2013MEMOiR MadNEss Jennifer Semple Siegel (MFAW 94)Memoir Madness covers Jennifers psychedelic days in Hollywood, her return to Sioux City, Iowa, her involuntary incarceration at a mental health facility, and, fnally, her escape to Pennsylvania.Ban My Book Publishing, 2012 MaNdEla aNd aMERica Charlene Smith (MFAIA) This is an authorized biography about the long and complex relationship between Nelson Mandela and the United States. This is one of three books Charlene published in 2012. New Africa Books, 2012KitsuNE Jessamyn Smyth (MFAW 04)In this short, intense poetry collection a winner in the New Womens Voices Series competition Jessamyn Smyth writes about something very like love/but harder to escape. Finishing Line Press, 2013gaspaRd aNd cEcilE Robert Soule (RUP 47)A fctionalized account of the life and times of Gaspard Duifopruggar, whom some still credit as the creator of the modern violin.Traford Publishing, 2012MaRgiNaliziNg accEss tO thE sustaiNaBlE fOOd systEM Camille Tuason Mata (IMA 09) This is an analysis of the barriers minority communities face in accessing healthy, fresh foods in Oakland, Calif.University Press of America, 2013yOu shOuldNt call ME MOMMySusan Tsui (MFAW 10) A story about the difcult journey of self-discovery, one that explores the power of truth over illusion and the meaning of a mothers love.Onieros Press, 2012ONE way ticKEt David Tucker (MFAIA 04) This collection of powerful short stories, told with wit and sensitivity, challenges us to examine our own lives and the personal choices we make.Bookland Press, August 2012| alumni portfolio |Send in your new booksHave you published a book recently? send it to Clockworks, 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfeld, VT 05667. Please note that because of the volume of publications we receive, we give preference to the most recently published books.CloCkworks spring | summer 2013 19| class notes |SEnd uS your nEwS To submit a note, send an e-mail to clockworks@goddard.edu.1940speter b. liveright (Jr 41, ba 43) of Lutherville, Md., is still working at age 91! Watch a video interview with him at goddard.edu/peter.1950sJoseph levine (Jr 51, ba 53) of Mill Valley, Calif., is learning yoga at age 82 and was interviewed on The California Report on Dec. 19 (californiareport.org).Jane mink rossen (ba 54) of Charlottenlund, Denmark, turned 80 on Dec. 7, 2012. She is still writing and publishing in ethnomusicology. 1960sgale robin greenleaf (6465 and 6768) of Brunswick, Maine, married and moved to Austin, Texas, went back to school at St. Edwards New College in 1988-89, attended graduate school at University of Texas (UT) for journalism and American studies, and taught technical writing in the engineering department at UT for 10 years. She is now retired and living in Maine with her dog and three cats.Jerome mintz (ba rUp 65) of Roslyn Heights, N.Y., the founder and director of Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) hopes youll join him for the 10th Annual AERO Conference this year at the LIU Post University in New York City, from May 2326. Visit educationrevolution.org.Jim roos (ba rUp 64) recently celebrated his 82nd birthday with his wife Karen (Rexford) Roos, their sons and families and many dear friends. He is currently taking a memoir writing course and recalls that coming to Goddard in 1951 was an outstanding, if not the outstanding, event in his life. 1970sJudith arcana (ma ggp 78) of Portland, Ore., is one of seven Oregon poets whose work will be installed on 9- by 9-foot panels printed with nature images at Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro. The exhibit is the result of a competition to create poems for the new hospital, and the winners were chosen for best matching Kaiser Permanentes interior design theme, Tranquil Relief Through Nature. edwina austin (ma ggp 73) of Rutland, Vt., is still working as a clinical instructor at Castleton State College.lucinda stowe baker (ba rUp 75) of Baltic, Conn., has been exhibiting her works of art in museums all over the world, with solo and group shows primarily in China, Canada and the United States. Her 19-year-old son is also an artist. She visited fellow classmate tamara berdofe (ba rUp 75) and husband Dane; says Lucinda of Tamara: she hasnt changed a bit after 38 (ahem) or so years! She has also reconnected with alumni on Goddards alumni Facebook page; take a look at facebook.com/groups/21875331936.claudia bates-physioc (ba rUp 75) of Midlothian, Va., is ending her career as a social worker on a happy note, helping to create families for those seeking international adoptions. She and her husband Richard are now empty nesters.renee beck (ba rUp 73) of Berkeley, Calif., worked with teens and their families at Holden High School, formerly Contra Costa Alternative School, for 32 years as clinical director. She is a licensed MFC, has a private practice in Shadow & Dreamwork in Berkeley, and supervises trainees from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has co-authored The Art of Ritual and would love to connect with Goddard folks. Visit her website at reneebeckmft.com. tasha J. bonfanti-balsom (ba rUp 75) of Lexington, Mass., runs a large family day care program with 12 children enrolled and seven teachers on staf. She also runs the nursery care program at Follen Community Church in Lexington. Learn more about it at tashabalsomdaycare.com. margaret holston cheatham (ba rUp 73) of Birmingham, Ala., is still working with the Retired Teachers of Alabama and is the chairperson of the legislative committee. sara church (ba rUp 73) of Minneapolis, Minn., is still drawing and painting, and she teaches art to around 700 elementary school students per week. She recently became a frst-time grandmother. pamela sue cloutier (ba rUp 76) of Kennebunk, Maine, stopped by the Vermont campus in September 2012 and says it has much improved! She and her husband Bob created a free dental clinic in Biddeford, Maine, in 2008, and it is still running strong thanks to volunteers. laurel s.d. colimon (ba rUp 71) of Ossining, N.Y., retired in June 2011 from her job as a transitional specialist and teacher trainer for the New York City schools. She now enjoys travel, music, friends and family in her retirement.ralph e. culver (ba rUp 74) of Burlington, Vt., received the 2012 Anabiosis Press Poetry Chapbook Prize for his collection, Both Distances. His poem, For the Last Catamount, was nominated by The Worcester Review for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. His son Jason, who was born on registration day of Goddards 1973 summer trimester, turned 40 on May 1.Vince dipersio (ba rUp 76) of North Hollywood, Calif., produced and directed the documentary The Kennedy Detail, which was nominated for an Emmy last year. His new series, Bomb Patrol Afghanistan, follows a Navy Bomb Disposal Unit through its entire deployment and was nominated as Best Limited Series by the International Documentary Association.stay connected. /GoddardCollege @GoddardCollege /GoddardCollege20 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013ART WAlK Deborah (MA GGP 77) and Philip Zuchman (MA GGP 73) of Philadelphia, Pa., presented their exhibit, Walk in the Woods, in February at the Old City Jewish Art Center. Deborah gave a painting demonstration and Philip discussed his work and signed copies of his book, Summer on the Hill. Above, by Deborah Gross-Zuchman, The Sentrees, oil on paper, 30" x 22."helen l. Foster (ba rUp 79) of Santa Rosa, Calif., is in her ninth decade of taking courses in art, science and literature. She also recently passed her registration renewal for her nurses license in California.david h. Frank (ba rUp 71) of Guilford, Conn., was a featured potter in the Shoreline Arts Trail Open Studios Weekend held November 1718, 2012. eva Freund (ma ggp 79) of Vienna, Va., published her article, The Evolution of IEEE Std. 2012, in the American Society Quality Software Divisions journal, Software Professional 0.ann goldman (ba rUp 74) of Red Bank, N.J., just sent her youngest of to college in January. Kathleen m. Kern-pilch (ma sbpat 79) of Bratenahl, Ohio, has retired after 30 years as an art therapist with the Art Studio - Metro Health Medical Center. She currently runs programs for inner city children at the St. Jerome School and for seniors at the Metro Health extended care. She serves as a Reiki practitioner for pain management related to spinal cord injuries and for oncology patients. She is also an honorary member of the Buckeye Art Therapy Clinic. deborah nadoolman landis (ba rUp 73) of Beverly Hills, Calif., edited Hollywood Costume and curated the exhibition of the same name at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The exhibition ran from Oct. 20, 2012 through Jan. 27, 2013 and showcased over 100 of the most iconic movie costumes from across a century of flmmaking, including the gingham pinafore and ruby red slippers worn by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. To see photos and learn more about the exhibition, go to vam.ac.uk and search for Hollywood custume.roger norman leege (ba rUp 71, ma ggp 75) of Venice, Fla., retired as CTO of the Tolland Public School District after 40 years as a teacher administrator. Since then, he has worked as a digital artist, doing photography, collage and mixed media. His work was included in Photography by Design at the Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction, Vt., which ran through Jan. 4. Says Roger, Id very much like to hear from 1968-71 RUPs and 1975-76 Boston Regional GGPs who remember the old days. steven light (ba rUp 75) of Marshfeld, Vt., helped move the gamelan Sulukala to its new home in the Pratt Library in February. Steven and Kathy Light are holding open gamelan rehearsals on Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. susan lynn price (ma ggp 75) of Kenmore, Wash., received a master of science in nutrition at Bastyr University. She is a practicing Certifed Nutritionist in Seattle and Issaquah. Susan is married to Steve Gins. She is looking for classmate beverly gordon (ma ggp 75).annellen simpkins, phd (ma ggp 74) and her husband taught a workshop in January on Neuroscience for Clinicians: Brain Change for Stress, Anxiety, Trauma, Moods and Substance Abuse. The workshop, presented in Burlington, Vt., Manchester, N.H., and Portland, Maine, was sponsored by PESI/CMI. glennette tilley turner (ma ggp 79) wrote Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America, which won The Golden Kite Honor Book from the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators. She also received the 2012 Wilber H. Siebert Award from the National Park Services Underground Railroad Network to Freedom for her steadfast dedication and commitment to the Underground Railroad.Jill Watts (ma ggp 77) of Worcester, Mass., published two books: A St. Lucian Inspired Fairy Tale and Stories from Piaye: the World Through the Eyes of the Children. She wrote both while serving in the Peace Corps from 2010 to 2012. Proceeds from the books go to the childrens school in St. Lucia. Both of the books are available on Amazon.com. marianne r. Weil (ba rUp 74) of Orient, N.Y., was a featured guest on the WNPR-CT Faith Middleton show on Nov. 20, 2012. She is an assistant professor of sculpture at City University of New York College of Staten Island. Visit her website at marianneweil.com. avrum geurin Weiss (ba rUp 74) of Atlanta, Ga., published his second book, Change Happens: When to Try Harder and When to Stop Trying So Hard, in 2011. 1980smark c. helmke (ma ggp 81) was a press and policy adviser to Indiana U.S. Senator Richard Lugar and gained international recognition for his work in the Philippine democratic revolution and the end of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. He helped start an international consulting frm that grew from fve to 450 employees. He worked in Ukraine and Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union. After 9/11, he returned to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to work on arms control, public diplomacy, and climate change. He is now a professor of strategic communications at Trine University in Angola, Ind.David Hofberger (BA ADP 81) of Arnold, Md., is serving as the facilities manager for all eight chapels at the United States Naval Academy.anita mendes-lopes (ba adp 81) of Hancock, N.H., received a masters in social work, University of CloCkworks spring | summer 2013 21| class notes |Connecticut in 1987; case management from 1987-1995; psychotherapy from 1995-2009 and does voluntary work on committees that involve issues of racial, social, and economic justice. She is currently retired.nancy anne miller (ma gV 88) of Washington, Conn., is a Bermudian poet, and has a Master of Letters from the Univ. of Glasgow. Somersault, a poetry collection about Bermuda, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2013. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and teaches poetry workshops in Bermuda.lorilee schoenbeck (ba has 86), of Burlington, Vt., came back to the Plainfeld campus during the spring 2013 residency and gave a public presentation entitled Bringing Complementary & Alternative Medicine to the Mainstream.lauren shea-sillars (ba adp 80) of Santa Fe, N.M., is restarting her 8-year-old business, Organize LLC, which she began near Princeton, N.J., as Organize of Santa Fe, LLC. Her three children are now grown: the two eldest are working in architecture and fashion advertising, and the youngest is a student at Warren Wilson College.gregory J. speck (ma ggp 80) of Rensselaerville, N.Y., retired from teaching high school English and is now playing music full-time in the New England region and in New Orleans, La. leatrice Weiss-miller (ba adp 8081) of Levittown, Pa., is saddened by the recent losses of her daughter, sister, mother and a close friend. She notes that their spirits remain with her, and she gives thanks to Goddard for remaining a living spark within her.1990sJennifer Fargo (ba rUp 98) of North Berwick, Maine, recently branched out and took over a foral design business in southern Maine. She and her husband, Jim Fargo, moved to Sugarloaf to work and ski for the winter. Their three children, Caspian (10), Gracie Mae (7) and Piper (2), love being on the mountain, skiing and snowboarding. arlene hampton (ma edU 96) of Jersey City, N.J. is enjoying her retirement from Hudson County Community College. John hiller (iba 95, ima 97) of Alexandria, Va., retired from the Smithsonian and changed from cinematography to fne art landscape photography. His work is shown regularly at the Del Ray Artisans Gallery in Alexandria, where he is a member of the gallerys board of directors. You can fnd his photo stream on Flickr.scott Kerner (ba rUp 9699) of Montpelier, Vt., is a co-owner and co-founder of Three Penny Taproom in Montpelier, which was just named a top 100 Beer Bar in the country for the third year by Draft magazine. He was also interviewed on WCAX-TV.andre souligny (ba rUp 98) of Roxbury, Vt., works as one of Vermonts two designated prisoners rights investigators through the Ofce of the Defender General. He and his partner Heather Holter (ba rUp 95) homeschool their three wondrous daughters, and Heather still volunteers at WGDR. 2000spauline e. bartolone (iba 01) of Davis, Calif., is a health care reporter for Capital Public Radio in Sacramento. david r. behling (mFaW-Wa 08) of Albert Lea, Minn., wrote and published his article, NRA Blew an Opportunity to Lead on Guns, in the Albert Lea Tribune on December 28, 2012. Karin m. bolender (mFaia 07) of Albany, Ore., explores intra-species relations through performance, video and various forms of narrative. Since 2010, she has enjoyed association with artists and anthropologists of the Multispecies Salon, including deanna pindell (mFaia 11). Recent projects have appeared in New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, Czech Republic, and Australia, and her essay, R.A.W. Assmilk Soap, will be featured in Multispecies Salon: Gleanings from a Para-Site in 2014. She recently moved to Oregon where she continues a long-term collaboration with emily stone (mFaia 08) and gathers fresh inspiration from Goddards Portland alumni community. Jordon d. bosse (iba 06) of Auburn, Maine, just earned a master of science in nursing education from St. Josephs College of Maine. He is a staf nurse at St. Marys Regional Medical Center and an adjunct clinical faculty member at the University of New England. Jeanne K. cosmos (mFaW 11) of Natick, Mass. taught 11 diferent English, writing and psychology classes in 15 weeks at three local colleges. She also taught Spies in Novel and Film and Mystery Writers at Brookline Adult Education and is revising her own work. The Canoe Expedition for Maine Girls, the graduate thesis project of Kirstin edelglass (ma edU 02) of Marlboro, Vt., thrived for six summers (20022007) before evolving into what is now Camp Chewonki for Girls near Mt. Katahdin. Karen engelmann (mFaW 09) of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has been out on a book tour with her historical fction novel, The Stockholm Octavo. GET A lIfT Lee Lipsitz (BA GV 87) of Orange, Conn., broke two American Powerlifting Association world records at the 2012 CrossFit Games. She deadlifted 320 pounds to beat the world record 305 pounds for her age and weight division. 22 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013ralena gordon (iba 08) of Nederland, Colo., presented her photography exhibit and fundraiser, The Empty Places: Americas Historic Mental Institutions Fundraiser, with special documentary-in-progress screening on Oct. 26, 2012 at Salto Cofee Works in Nederland. Her photos capture abandoned mental hospitals, a project she started as her thesis at Goddard in 2007. Learn more at theemptyplaces.com.roz grossman (ma has 09) of Burlington, Vt., received third-year funding from the Victoria Bufum Endowed Fund to teach the workshop Mindfulness Tools for Health and Wellness for cancer patients and caregivers at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington. The workshop is based on Jon Kabat-Zinns Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program. Roz is owner of The Neshamah Center. Learn more at mindfulstressrelief.net. richard J. hodgson (iba 01, ima 07) of Midland, Texas, is doing free workshops at senior citizen meetings. He is attempting to publish a book of poetry, The Gathering, and has started writing a novel.Cara L. Hofman (MFAW 09) of New York, N.Y., lectured at Oxford University this year as part of their Global Scholars Symposium. Her novel, So Much Pretty, has been released in the United Kingdom and translated into Portuguese and French. This spring, she is a writer in residence at Air Le Parc Project and Research Center in Toulouse, France. terry holmes, sr. (ba edU 00) of Virginia Beach, Va., earned his MEd from Regent University and is the evening school principal at Granby High School in Norfolk, Va.shawn Kerivan (mFaW 06) of Stowe, Vt., and chris millis (mFaW 07) of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., presented a panel at the 2013 AWP Conference in Boston: Story Autopsy: How I Wrote a Novel in Three Days And Then Adapted It Into a Movie Starring Billy Crystal. Millis adapted his prize-winning novel, Small Apartments, into an independent dark comedy that premiered at SXSW 2012 and was released by Sony Worldwide Pictures in 2013. The cast co-stars Dolph Lundgren, Johnny Knoxville, James Caan and Billy Crystal, among others. david mandel (ma psy 03) of Canton, Conn., traveled to Singapore last November at the invitation of the Ministry of Social and Family Development and the Singapore Police Force. He spoke at their National Family Violence Networking Symposium and gave an interview on family violence to Good Morning Singapore, the national morning news show that reaches across the Pacifc to large audiences in China, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand. tara b. meyer (ba rUp 01) of Montpelier. Vt., is a family nurse practitioner who recently joined the Giford Health Center at Berlin, Vt.donnelle mcgee (mFaW 08) of Turlock, Calif., has a prose piece, Her Time with Beethoven, in the 2013 California Prose Directory. His poetry will be in upcoming issues of SLAB Literary Magazine and Brain, Child, and his poetry manuscript, Naked, has been accepted for publication by the independent publishing press, Unbound Content. academic programs A KEY TO THE ACRONYMSADP: Adult Degree ProgramBA: Bachelor of Arts BAS: Bachelor of Arts in SustainabilityBFAW: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative WritingEDU: Education ProgramG-C: Goddard-Cambridge ProgramGEPFE: Experimental Program in Furthering EducationGGP: Goddard Graduate ProgramGS: Goddard SeminaryGV: Goddard Five (all programs from 81-91)HAS: Health Arts & Sciences ProgramIBA: Bachelor of Arts in Individualized StudiesIMA: Master of Arts in Individualized StudiesJR: Junior CollegeMA: Master of ArtsMAT: Masters in Art TherapyMFAIA: Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts MFAIA-WA: Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts in Port Townsend, Wash. MFAW: Master of Fine Arts in Creative WritingMFAW-WA: Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in Port Townsend, Wash.PSY: Psychology & Counseling ProgramRUP: Residential Undergraduate ProgramSBC: Sustainable Business & CommunitiesSBPAT: Summer-Based Psychology in Art TherapySE/Sum: Social Ecology/Summer ProgramsoSCAR WoRThy Silver Linings Playbook, a flm adapted from the novel by Matthew Quick (MFAW 07), received eight Oscar nominations this year, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Best Supporting Actor (Robert DeNiro), Best Supporting Actress (Jacki Weaver), Best Director (David O. Russell), and Best Adapted Screenplay (David O. Russell). Jennifer Lawrence won for Best Actress! His new novel, The Good Luck Right Now, has been purchased by DreamWorks Studios. Matthew is affectionately known by friends and family as Q. PICADOR.COMCloCkworks spring | summer 2013 23| class notes |susan oriley (ma edU 09) of Williamstown, Mass., is an international service volunteer with Rural Literacy Project. She has worked in many locations, including Venezuela, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Ecuador, the United States, and most recently, Mexico. She will be returning to La Manzanilla, Mexico, to work with the foundation La Catalina to start a public library, the frst in the area. She has two beloved young grandsons, Zinedine and Augustus.emiry s. potter (ba rUp 03) of Burlington, Vt., received a master of arts in clinical mental health counseling with a concentration in addiction and substance abuse from Antioch University, New England in 2011.gretchen rae (iba 05) of Shokan, N.Y., has been promoted to watershed educator for the new Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program. Kristen ringman (mFaW 08) of Johnston, R.I., along with allison polk (mFaW 12) of Washington, D.C., gave a reading on March 8 at the AWP Conference in Boston, How to Catch a Pair of Flying Hands: a Reading by Deaf Writers.david J. robson (mFaW 06) of Wilmington, Del., had his play Assassin presented at the Great Plains Theater Conference in 2012. Forrest stephen roth (mFaW 04) of Lafayette, La., graduates in May from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette with a PhD in English.peter p. saunders (mFaW 02) of Chatham, Mass., edited Silent No MoreUnlocking the Voices of Older Poets, an anthology of 52 poets from 50 to 97 years old. gunner scott (iba 09) of Jamaica Plain, Mass., has been executive director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition for the last fve years. He led the legislative campaign that resulted in the passage of the Transgender Equal Rights bill in the Massachusetts legislature in 2011. He has written articles on LGBTQ equality and transgender issues for Boston Phoenix and Bay Windows. He also co-authored a study and follow-up article in the American Journal of Public Health on transgender health in Massachusetts. In addition to his social justice activism, he is also passionate about saving wild lions from extinction and captivity and advocates with the Obama administration for lions to be added to the Endangered Species Act. Find him at gunnerscott.com.gail south (mFaW 05) of Charlottesville, Va., was a fnalist for her work, The Solitude of Memory, in the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction in 2012. erin tittel (iba 03) received her master of accountancy degree and the Master of Accountancy Outstanding Graduate Award from Golden Gate University. cathy nolan Vincevic (ima 07) of Deerfeld, N.H., is director of The Gordon-Nash Library in New Hampton, N.H. Her recent works include: saltaction with Mari Novotny-Jones at Lumen 2012, Staten Island; Low Concept: Experimental Theater at Mobius; part of The Art of the UnGrand #3 curated by Jane Wang; 100 Years at Boston University; and rabbit, rabbit, a solo performance with a plastic didgeridoo, voice and flm projector. Learn more at mobius.org/artist/cathy-nolan.cory Wanamaker (mFaia 02) of Prague, Czech Republic, received a Fulbright Fellowship to England, followed by three years in Moscow, where he worked as an educator and artist. He currently lives in Prague and curates Airy Hill Studios. Learn more at airyhillstudio.com.r. scott youmans (ima 05) of Morton, Pa., is working toward ordination as a Universalist minister in the MDiv program at the Starr King School for the Ministry. 2010sKim brown (mFaW-Wa 11) of Roswell, Georgia, and dulcie Witman (mFaW-Wa 11) of Topsham, Maine, created a new literary journal, Minerva Rising. Issue 1, Beginnings, was released in September, and Issue 2, Winter, in December. The third issue, Rebellion, is due out in May. Visit minervarising.com. teresa mei chuc (mFaW 12) of Pasadena, Calif., had an interview with Rattle in December about her familys fight from war-torn Vietnam and her new book of poetry, Red Thread. Mary Pacifco Curtis (MFAW-WA 12) of Los Gatos, Calif., published an article on TheRhumpus.net in December. Her poem, Between Rooms, appeared in the summer 2012 Naugatuck River Review. robert descoteaux, Jr. (ma psy 12) of Lewiston, Maine, is an ACT Team Clinician at Tri-County Mental Health Services.Kathleen iwanowski (mFaia 10) moved to Denver, Colo., to be closer to family. Her work includes grant writing with fellow alumna Grace Anne Alfero (MFAIA 10); teaching art appreciation at Columbia Southern University; and being a nurse with Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care. She plans to publish a book on her daily mandalas.elizabeth Jamar (iba 09) of New York, N.Y., had an exhibit in Southampton last July titled Fiberworks: Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Form. In October, the book American Sewn Rugs: Their History with Exceptional ANDY

HARRISREvoluTIoNARy PoET Award-winning poet Synnika Lofton (IBA 04, MFAW 06) of Chesapeake, Va., just released his second single, Televised Revolution. Read more about Synnika and watch a performance at goddard.edu/people/synnika-lofton. 24 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013loCAl MovEMENT Brian Boyes (BA RUP 95, MA EDU 11) of Plainfeld, Vt., directed The Saturn Peoples Sound Collective, a 20-person band, in concert in December at the Haybarn Theatre at Goddard as part of the Local Spotlight Concert Series. Brian is pictured at center. Learn more about his work at brianboyes.com.Examples was released, by Jan Whitlock with Jamar. Jamar is also a docent at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton.Kelly Johnson (ima 12) of Neptune Beach, Fla., has been traveling the country presenting her book, Wings, Worms, and Wonder: A Guide for Creatively Integrating Gardening and Outdoor Learning Into Childrens Lives. She has built a business around the book, including book events, school and community garden workshops, school garden consultations, and blogging. Visit wingswormsandwonder.com. The short flm Undercover EM, written and directed by mike Kinnie (mFaW 13) of Sackets Harbor, N.Y., was a featured short at the Kingston Film Festival in Kingston, Ontario. Mike and his wife are opening a B&B on Wolfe Island in April; they plan on hosting writers retreats, among other things. Visit wolfeislandmanor.com. Jordan laney (bFaW 10) of Vilas, N.C., married mandolinist Aaron Ramsey, who recently released his solo album Gathering. Laney receives her masters in Appalachian Studies from Appalachian State University this May. Her graduate work has been presented at the Appalachian Studies Associations annual conference and the Global Initiatives Conference hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill.liz latty (mFaW 12) of Oakland, Calif., was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow and attended the annual Retreat for Emerging LGBT Writers last July. Jennifer mackenzie (mFaW 13) of Wilmington, N.C., is teaching advanced screenwriting to graduate students in the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington this spring.burney carl marsh (mFaW 12) of Statesboro, Ga., is teaching writing at Georgia Southern University. In January, he released his edited anthology, The Best of Clapboard House. Visit clapboardhouse.wordpress.com.caroline mason (ma psy 12) of Asheville, N.C., passed the four-hour, 200 question National Counselor Exam and is one step closer to becoming a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate. thomas palmer (mFaW 13) of Denver, Colo., published his essay, A Little Thing, at Connation Press: An Online Artifact. Jai (Julie) richards (ma psy 10) of Saskatoon, Canada, published her thesis manuscript article, Giving Voice to the Trans Community on GID Reform in the DSM-5: A Saskatchewan Perspective, in the Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy. icess Fernandez rojas (mFaW 12) of Shreveport, La., had a fction piece, Beginning, published last September in Minerva Rising. bill rosenthal (mFaW 12) of Pacifc Palisades, Calif., fnished a writing stint for Showtimes Nurse Jackie. He also completed Greetings From Home, his frst Internet series, available at http://on.aol.com/partner/greetings-from-home-517435567. Kiera sauter (iba 13) of West Danville, Vt., performed Subluxation: A Partial Dislocation at the Haybarn Theatre in December. The show was a one-time performance of dance and spoken narrative choreographed and produced as part of her thesis. It featured Vermont dancers Candace Fugazy, Chelsea Palin, Nathan Burton, Isadora Snapp, Kara Lake, Genevieve Pellman and Debbie New. lizz schumer (mFaW 13) had two poems in the September 2012 issue of Wordgathering. Her short story, Remedial Reading, was included in the inaugural issue of Limn Literary & Arts Journal, founded by Will mallon (mFaW 11). Schumers Terminal Central, part of her thesis memoir, SWEET GENIuS Neely Cohen (BA HAS 12), of Peterborough, N.H., won Food Networks Sweet Genius dessert competition! Her episode, Twinkling Genius, aired on Dec. 13. Read more at goddard.edu/neely. COURTESY

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nETWORKCloCkworks spring | summer 2013 25| class notes |lIvING SIMPly Aldo Lavaggi (IBA 10) of Saugerties, N.Y., offcially moved into his tiny house, above, last summer. He started building it in March 2010 while he was still a student. The house is 7 by 16 feet and has solar panels, no running water or Internet service, and a composting toilet. He gave a talk to a class at Columbia-Greene Community College on living simply and shrinking ones environmental footprint. will be included in the 2013 compen-dium from Robocup Press, run by tamryn spruill (mFaW 12). Her Lessons From My Parents will appear in a new collection from Familius Press, which is due to be released in May. Jonathan matthew smucker (iba 12) authored chapters in two books: one in We Are Many: Critical Refections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation and seven in Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution. Learn more at beautifultrouble.org. carolyne st. clair (ma edU 12) of Key Biscayne, Fla., fulflled her dream of returning to the Navajo Indian reservation to conduct faculty development training and in-class coaching at the Atsa Biyaazh Community school in Shiprock, N.M. Keisha thorpe (mFaW 12) will be a monthly contributor to Identity Magazine (identitymagazine.net) under her pen name, Cassia L Rainne. Flour, a web series she helped to produce, direct and act in, is an ofcial selection in LAWEBFEST IV. Learn more at fourseries.com. lynne esther Vanderpot (ma psy 12) of Housatonic, Mass., is pursuing her PhD in practical theology with a focus on spirituality and healthcare at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Her dissertation will explore the long-term efects of antipsychotic medication on a persons spiritual life. She was a guest blogger for the MA in psychology and counseling program at goddard.edu.lisa Wells (bFaW 12) of Iowa City, Iowa, was interviewed on Late Night Debut to talk about her essay collection, Yeah. No. Totally. She holds a Provost fellowship in poetry at The University of Iowa Writers Workshop. chelsea Werner-Jatzke (mFaW 13) of Seattle, Wash., was one of 12 writers selected as a 2013 Jack Straw Writer. Learn more at jackstraw.org. peter Wieczorek (ma edU 11) of Clear Lake, Wisc., was named director of Northwest Passage High School, a charter school and leader in progressive education focusing on project-based learning, experiential education, and expeditionary learning in Coon Rapids, Minn. In November, Lida Winfeld (MFAIA 11) brought her one-woman dance and spoken word performance, In Search of Air, to Brown University. This dance and theater performance, developed in part while a Goddard student, is based on her experience growing up with a learning disability. Read more and watch the video at goddard.edu/lida.Amy Woodruf (MFAIA 11) of New Orleans, La., staged her original solo show, Moon Cove, a ghostly multimedia folktale about her Acadiana ancestors, in New Orleans last fall. In January she appeared in the title role and designed and built seven historical costumes for The Insanity of Mary Girard, presented in New Orleans by Theatre Louisiane.current studentsKyle bella (mFaW) of San Francisco, Calif., wrote Traveling Through Time and Embracing Queer History, published on Hufngton Post on Feb. 12. Read it at huffngtonpost.com.sarah cedeo (mFaW) of Brockport, N.Y., had a poem published in the Bellevue Literary Review and a poem published in the anthology Love Rise Up. Her short story, Fledgling, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. douglas craig (mFaW) of Oxford, Mo., had his short story, Elemental Love, and two poems, excerpted from his thesis, accepted for publication in the 2013 Wayne Literary Review.Justin hall (mFaW) of San Francisco, Calif., edited the new comic, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, which was featured on NPR Books. ron heacock (iba 12, mFaW) of Portland, Ore., had short stories published in Elohi Gadugi Journal, PaperTape Magazine, Connotation Press (an on-line artifact) and the Limn Literary & Arts Journal special horror and Halloween edition. 26 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013david henderson (mFaW) of Rochester, N.Y., presented his solo play, The Gay Fiancee (ne Steal the Moon), last September at the inaugural First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival. brianna Johnson (bFaW) of Bloomington, Minn., had excerpts from her manuscript, Fire Sale, published online by Tarpaulin Sky. chukwuweike nwabukwu (mFaW) of Brooklyn, N.Y., taught a Capoeira Angola workshop last January at the Haybarn Theatre. thomas park of (mFaW) Warrenton, N.C., published a chapbook, Park Town: New and Collected Poems. He published two poems in the spring issue of The West Trade Review, and he founded the Artists Market in Warren County.ti randall (mFaW) of Wilmington, Del., was selected for Toe Good Poetry's literary mag for his tanka series these hands, which have never held a knife, held a gun, have held you. toegoodpoetry.comandrea savage (ba edU) of Capitola, Calif. was interviewed and featured on Eduventurist.com.shae savoy (mFaW) of Seattle, Wash., published a poem in the 2012 edition of Paper Nautilus. Two of her poems will appear in WeMoon 2014. Jef Simonds (MFAW) of Castleton, N.Y., had a story published in Pif Magazine. charlene smith (mFaia) of Cam-bridge, Mass., published a Smartphone app, South Africa Travel: The Rainbow Nation, through SutroMedia in San Franciso, which ranked it as one of their top 10 apps of 2012. She won the Harvard bookstore essay competition for The Lost Cat, published in New England Essays in October. She addressed the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 26 on The Life and Legacy of Nelson Mandela. rosemary Urato (mFaia) of Hillsborough, N.H., created a mural at the Hillsboro Waste Transfer Station to create awareness and inform the community of how important it is to reduce, reuse and recycle. Her artwork can also be seen in conservation areas. carlos mason Wehby (mFaW) of South Hadley, Mass., had a fction piece selected as a fnalist in the Modern Grimmoire: Fairy Tales, Fables and Folklore competition and will be published in the forthcoming Modern Grimmoire Anthology.trisha Winn (mFaW) of Beaverton, Mich., had a lyrical prose piece published in Elohi Gadugi; a nonfction piece published online by Citizens for Decent Literature; and a vignette published by TOSKA. Peninsula College Press will publish her critical work, Ecofeminism and Cultural Memory in Joy Harjos Poetry: Writing in The Enemy's Language, in its inaugural journal. mimi yahn (iba2) of Putney, Vt., had her article on bullying published in the winter issue of Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice. Mimi wants to thank her advisor, Bobby Buchanan, for all his assistance and support in writing the article during her frst semester.castle yuran (mFaW) of Norfolk, Conn., is featured in The Registered Citizen. She will teach a writing course at University of Connecticut-Torrington as part of her teaching practicum.| class notes |port townsend, continued from page 17of the Community Campus in the Columbia City neighborhood. Her contribution enabled Goddard to successfully deliver a revised and rejuvenated low-residency model set in an urban location. Lori gracefully supported hundreds of students in their transformation at Goddard. For every community member, she has been available with a generous ear and thoughtful questions. She also knows how to organize one righteous ping-pong tournament! Good luck, Lori!10 Joe walden, residency AssistantAt the time of press for this article, Residency Assistants Joe and Evie Walden were soaring over the Pacifc on wings they built themselves as Skysailors extraordinaire. More on them when they land in a future issue of Clockworks! CWhISToRy IN ThE MAKING Robert Ruffn (MFAW) of Mobjack, Va., above, presented his play, Kiss My Little Girls1861: Coming Home, in Yorktown, and Kiss My Little Girls1862: The Healing Child, in Gloucester, to commemorate the Civil Wars 150th anniversary. The Cook Foundation commissioned him to write a childrens musical about the life of Pocahontas.BruCe

nelsonCloCkworks spring | summer 2013 27Creative Weavings of Art Goddard Student Brings Students and Graduates Together for New Arts Festival for 150 years, Goddard graduates have assimilated into the creative weavings of art across the world. With interdisciplinary art, numerous artistic felds are interwoven to create new and innovative ways to live in the world. When John Ollom (MFAIA 14) formed his non-proft company in 2003, he wanted to support the strength of the diversity of the arts, but never realized that his growth as an artist would include so many past and present artists from the Goddard community. For the past 10 years, Johns company, Prismatic Productions, Inc./Ollom Movement Art, has been presenting summer programs for artists in Northampton, Mass. These intensive programs have often exposed movement artists to other art forms to help incorporate related concepts into their work. Guest faculty and artists have come from the felds of visual art, poetry, flm, music, voice and musical theatre. The inclusion of these artists as part of the learning experience has been the highlight of the program. This year, Suzanne Scott (MFAIA 01) and Lynne Constantine (MFAIA 14) will be ofering a special workshop on art aesthetics, bringing their fresh perspectives of art as it relates to culture and queer and second-wave feminist theory.To celebrate the culmination of 10 years as a non-proft, Prismatic Productions, Inc./Ollom Movement Art is presenting its frst arts festival. Featured in the program will be Antidote: A Performative Dinner ART WoRKS Above, a scene from Antidote: A Performative Dinner and Installation, by Dana Heffern (MFAIA 12). Right, the cover of John Olloms book, Internal Landscapes.The Ollom Art Summer Program runs from Aug. 310, and the Ollom Art Festival takes place Aug. 910 on the Smith College Campus in Northampton, Mass. For more information about the summer program or the Ollom Art Festival please visit ollomart.com/summerprogram or like them on facebook.com /ollom.Art.BY JIM SABLE, BUSINESS MANAGER OF PRISMATIC PRODUCTIONS, INC.and Installation, by Dana Hefern (MFAIA 12), which was presented at Goddard Colleges Plainfeld campus in July of 2012. By completely immersing the observer and participant into the life of a diabetic during an everyday meal, this experiential work educates the viewer about Type I diabetes. John Ollom and his company of movement artists will present Prisoner of My Projection, based on his graduate research combining Jungian depth psychology, dance, movement art and surrealism. Lighting design and special efects created by Barry Whitfeld (MFAIA 14) and a unique fabric set designed and produced by Chriztine Foltz (MFAIA 14) will invoke the unique world of this work. The festival will also include flm, movement arts, fne arts, class demonstrations and a book reading. In addition to bringing all this creative work into the world this summer, John will be starting his G5 (fnal semester) at the time of the festival. He will graduate in February 2014. CWDANA

HEFFERN28 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013| faculty & staff notes |danielle abrams (mFaia) rejoined Goddard as a faculty member in the MFAIA-Vermont Program. Read more at goddard.edu/people/danielle-abrams-mfa. rick benjamin (mFaia) has been appointed State Poet of Rhode Island by Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee. He teaches a course on Poetry and Community Service at Brown University and is on leave from Goddard this spring.ryan boudinots (mFaW) novel, Blueprints of the Afterlife, was a fnalist for the Philip K. Dick Award.deborah brevoorts (mFaW) new play The Comfort Team, about military wives during the surge of Iraq, premiered at the Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk, Va. Her play, The Velvet Weapon, a backstage farce about democracy, received a stage reading in the NJ Playwrights Contest Festival at William Paterson University. Deborah has been commissioned by the Virginia Stage Company to write Homestead, a new play about Martha Washington.rebecca browns (mFaW) two short pieces, Breath and Love Poem, have been translated by Lise Honneaux, and were published in September in Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen, a Flemish art magazine. Her story Heaven, translated by Motoyuki Shibata, will be published in the paperback edition of Translation Classroom.laiwan (mFaia-Wa) received a BC Arts Council Visual Arts Award for 201213 to create a series of drawings and music graphic scores for internationally renowned clarinet virtuoso Lori Freedman. As board chair for Grunt Artist-Run-Center in Vancouver, she curated and produced the Eclectic Cabaret, a fundraiser with performances by rosalyn tate (mFaia 12) and stacy dawson stearns (mFaia 12), as well as Laiwans own rock band.Jan clausen (mFaW) has two poems, Veiled Spill #2 and Veiled Spill #8, in the Adanna Literary Journal special issue on Women and War. Her poem Ghazal: For Us was accepted by Theodate, the Hill-Stead Museums poetry journal.darrah cloud (mFaW) and her team for their musical, Makeover, will be going to the University of Iowa this fall for an in-depth page-to-stage workshop. Her play, Our Suburb, will be produced in the 201314 season at Theatre J in Washington, D.C. And Whats Bugging Greg? was published in 2012, after winning the Macys Theatre for Young Audiences Award. All of Darrahs made-for-television movies re-ran on Lifetime last fall.Kenny Fries (mFaW) has written the libretto for The Memory Stone, a chamber opera commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, which premiered at Asia Society Texas in Houston on April 9. Scored for shakuhachi, 21-string koto, string quartet, and four singers, the libretto explores the invisible bond between two women who have been afected by the devastation of Japans earthquake and tsunami. dr. tracy garrett (psy) was a presenter at the 44th Annual Association of Black Psychologists Conference last July in Los Angeles. Her presentation introduced participants to the basic elements of NTU (Harmony, Balance, Authenticity, and Interconnectedness). NTU is a Bantu term that loosely translates into life force or essence of life. bea gates (mFaW) was a presenter on a tribute panel about Adrienne Rich at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in March. She will teach a workshop, Creating Character, Using History, in Assisi, Italy this summer with Art Workshop International. gale Jackson (mFaia) completed her PhD, bringing together a lifetime of work in womens studies and the study of Africa, with the sacred song performance and publication of Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Song, Dance, Black History and Poetics in Performance. Her Bridge Suite project was published in The African American Review, and some selected poems in Artists and Infuence. Gale has expanded her Ehecatal Olin Kenny Fries (MFAW) wrote the libretto for The Memory Stone, a chamber opera commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera.ExPERIMENTAl ART dr. wendy phillips (pSy) photograph, Dance of the Bulls, was part of a month-long group show in March at Soho Photo Gallery in New York City. The exhibition, called the Krappy Kamera, featured the work of international photographers who work with experimental cameras. Another photo was selected for exhibition in the National Competition at Soho last August. Wendys paper, Double Personality: The Relationship Between Human and Animal Tono in Chautengo, Guerrero, Mexico in 2005 was published last fall in Anthropology of Consciousness. Dance of the Bulls, by Wendy PhillipsCloCkworks spring | summer 2013 29Learning Studio Collaboration with a series of writing workshops and one-to-one sessions this spring. bhanu Kapils (mFaW) work is currently featured in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Los Angeles Review of Books, CutBank, Galatea Resurrects #19, and New York Quarterly Review. Kapils work also appears in three new anthologies: The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry by Indians, Ill Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women and The Sonnets.susan Kims (mFaW) Brain Camp, the 2010 graphic novel she co-wrote with Laurence Klavan, was selected as one of the most popular paperbacks for young adults by YALSA, the young adult division of the American Library Association. Her short story, Recurrence, was sold to the British horror magazine, Black Static.Jake Klein (it) joined Goddard as an IT support specialist in Plainfeld in October. Jake is the son of Goddard neighbor, farmer and alumnus Joey Klein (MA SE 95) and former Goddard staf member Betsy Ziegler.michael Kleins (mFaW) new book, The Talking Day, was reviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books and on HufPo. His poems, There is where my sympathy comes to an abrupt end and What happened, were accepted for publication in Court Green.samantha Kolber (advancement, mFaW 14), outreach coordinator and managing editor of Clockworks, is engaged to Christopher Pyatak of South Newfane, Vt. A June 29 wedding in southern Vermont is planned.Jeanne mackins (mFaW) new novel, Lightfall, will be published by NAL in 2014. She has also been invited to give a workshop at the annual Historical Novel Society Conference in Florida, and she is reviewing books for their journal.micheline ahoronian marcom (mFaW) has been named a USA Rockefeller Fellow for 2012. Her 2004 novel, The Daydreaming Boy, won the 2005 PEN/USA Award for Fiction, and in 2006 she received a Whiting Writers Award.douglas a. martins (mFaW) Italian translation of his novel Outline of My Lover appears on the Indie For Bunnies list of Best Books of 2012. His story, Other Residences, Other Neighborhoods, appears in Best Gay Erotica 2013.rogelio martinezs (mFaW-Wa) play Tang/Laika was workshopped by Asolo Rep as part of their Ignite Festival, with a public reading held in April. New Yorks Atlantic Theater Company did a public workshop of his play Elk Cloner last year.John mcmanus (mFaW) received a 2013 Creative Capital Literature grant for his novel about the gay refugee community in Cape Town, South Africa. Two excerpts from his novel, The Cultivationists, were published in Fiddleblack and Plots With Guns. He completed a Ucross Foundation Literature Residency in December, and this summer hell be a resident artist at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Also, he is a fction judge for the 2012 Best of the Net Awards and the 2013 Delaware Press Association Writing Awards. Julie miles joined Goddard as the new academic support specialist in Port Townsend in January. Julie received her BA from Dickinson College and her Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia. caryn mirriam-goldberg (ima) is fnishing her four-year term as poet laureate of Kansas. The Kansas Humanities Council adopted her long-term project to keep the poet laureate program alive, in spite of the dissolution of all state funding for the arts. Caryn gave a keynote on writing and healing at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and two readings at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, N.J. Brookdale, which has a transfer partnership with Goddard. Jen morin (iba 11, admissions), of Colchester, Vt., joined Goddard as an admissions counselor in Plainfeld in January. She works with the Vermont campus undergraduate programs: IBA, BAS, BA HAS and BFAW. Jen previously was an employment services coordinator for Northwestern Counseling and Support Services. | faculty & staff notes |ARTISTS DoWN uNDER Andrea Parkins (MFAIA-VT) had her multi-diffusion audio work, Faulty (Broken Orbit), featured in the MADA Gallery at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The exhibition, With Hidden Noise, was curated by sound artist Stephen Vitiello and featured works by Vitiello, Pauline Oliveros, and others.30 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013Jill muhr (hr) joined Goddard in December as director of human resources. Jill is a long-standing human resources professional who has held leadership roles at the Vermont League of Cities and Towns and the New York Historical Society. She most recently served as director of operations at HR Sentry. monica nelson (library), library assistant at the Eliot D. Pratt Library, came to Goddard last March. Previously, she worked at Naropa University at the Allen Ginsberg Library in Boulder, Colo., and worked with her partner in their permaculture plant nursery in Pennsylvania. She currently lives in Burlington, Vt.

Victoria nelsons (mFaW, bFaW) book Gothicka was published by Harvard UP in 2012. She gave an interview on the novel with John Morehead of Theofantastique. Victoria is contributing a chapter to the companion volume for the British Film Institutes national series on the Gothic later this year. The playwright Sibyl Kempson published a two-play volume, The Secret Death of Puppets and Ich, Krbisgeist, as an homage to Victoria.richard paneks (mFaW-Vt) The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality received the 2012 Science Communication Award from the American Institute of Physics. Richard delivered lectures in Chile on his book and gave talks at venues including the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He co-authored The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, a Publishers Weekly top 10 notable science book this spring.michael sakamoto (mFaia-Wa) and ruth Wallen (mFaia-Vt) are now program co-directors of the MFAIA program: Michael directs the Port Townsend site, and Ruth directs the Vermont program.RETIRING MINDS Richard Shramm (SBC), above, a beloved member of the Sustainable Business and Communities program since 2008, retired in February. Richard frst taught at Goddard from 19911998 and was instrumental in creating the Goddard Business Institute, which he directed from 19931995. Read about his work at goddard.edu/people/richard-schramm. paul seligs (mFaW program director) third book, The Book of Knowing and Worth, will be published in January 2014. He was flmed for an HBO documentary by flmmaker David Sauvage, and he appeared live on Martha Stewart Radios Life Coaching with Sophie in December. The audio rights to his latest book, The Book of Love and Creation, have been sold to Gildan Media.darcy steinke (mFaW) gave a reading at the American University of Paris last July.maia stone, of East Montpelier, Vt., joined Goddard in October as the administrative assistant in the Presidents Ofce. Previously, she taught English as a second language in Mexico and Germany on a Fulbright Grant. Maia is a graduate of Kenyon College.eva swidler (iba, bas, has) published a chapter on environmental history in the new book Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts. She also published an article, The Personal and the Political: Redux, in the December Routledge journal, Capitalism Nature Socialism.Janet sylvesters (bFaW program director) poem Sea Smoke, was featured on the New Hampshire Arts Council website.partnerships, continued from page 15Interdisciplinary Arts programSeitu Jones, a boatbuilder in the Minneapolis areatook a design from one of the folks at the Boatbuilding school and had Goddard students build it. The Boatbuilding school has since expressed interest in Seitu presenting to their community, to bring his interdisciplinary arts perspective, and study of boatbuilding in Ghana, to help their students develop an international and multicultural understanding of the role of boatbuilding in the world.Developing both new and existing partnerships can only lead to more diverse educational options for students. Were looking at the community and seeing who would be good partners for us to align ourselves with, Labor notes. Its a good way to be involved in the communities that students are coming from, and also support our own programs. I think well see some really innovative developments in the next few years as we go forward with this process.From the other side of the partnership, Lawson agrees that the potential from this institutional symbiosis is tremendous. I see the relationship deepening and expanding in the futurethe Woodworking School is committed to sustainable and environmentally sound practices and use of materials, which resonates with core values at Goddard. Im hoping that we can leverage our focus as a specialist school to ofer students at Goddard the opportunity to learn and understand the values of traditional craftsmanship, and how to learn with their hands.As the demands placed on institutions of higher learning continue to shift and develop in the years to come, its clear that through its academic partnerships, Goddard College will continue to not simply follow and respond to these trends, but to lead the way in building the new paradigms that will defne higher education for generations to come. CWCloCkworks spring | summer 2013 31marshall c. marsh anders Jr. (ba adp 79) a retired music teacher, pianist and church organist, died on Nov. 15 at age 90. Jane hanna auch (ba rUp 69) a resident of New York City, died on Nov. 3, 2012. robert c. barab Jr., (ba rUp 67) died on Feb. 27, 2011 at age 68. Robert was an award-winning fne art photographer who traveled the world to fnd beauty and share it through his images.robert b. bretzfelder (ba rUp 52) who worked for the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis as a writer and analyst and then co-owned a photography service, died on Oct. 15 at age 83. His friends will remember him as a fast-minded, entertaining eccentric who was Goddards Community Chairman from 1951-52.david brown (ba rUp 1976-78) died on Sept. 14, 2012.sharon Jean bruce (ba rUp 73) died on Nov. 10, 2012. Her family asks that you remember her creative and resourceful spirit, beauty, dramatic fair, poise, love of horses, grace and generous heart.robert a. gauthier (gepFe 1976-77) died on Nov. 29, 2012, at age 68. Karl o. haupt (gJc 48) died on Oct. 16, 2012, at age 88. Joanne homer (ba 79), beloved wife of Dixon Bain, died on April 17, 2012, a few weeks shy of her 60th birthday. richard olf (ba rUp 73, ima 95) died on Jan. 18.lyold Jake Katz (ba rUp 72) died on March 3. He graduated from the Roosevelt School in Stamford, Conn., and after Goddard, received his MBA from Northeastern University. His philosophy, often expressed, was a short life and a merry one. david J. pitkin (ma 90), retired teacher and author, died on Feb. 13. David taught for over 25 years in Saratoga Springs and was a numerologist, spiritual counselor and religious education teacher. He helped establish a paranormal research and educational group in Saratoga during the 1970s. Upon his retirement, he wrote Saratoga County Ghosts and then eight more books in that genre, most recently Ghosts of the Northeast in 2002. He created his own publishing company, Aurora Publications, in Chestertown.geraldine a. pixley (ba 1968-70) died on Jan. 10. lynn schneider (ba adp 75) a resident of Millbrook, N.Y., died on Dec. 12, 2012, at age 62. Lynn practiced as a Jungian psychotherapist for over 30 years both in Millbrook and the Upper West Side. david h. siegle (ba rUp 68) died on Jan. 30. He was a long-time teacher, newspaper columnist and musician.cheryl suzanne spiese (ma has 02) died on Feb. 12, at age 65. She earned an MA in German at Rice University and an MLS at the University of Pittsburgh. She continued her education later in life when she obtained her third masters degree in health arts and sciences at Goddard.doris a. steele (ba gV 92) died on March 3, 2010.patricia ann groening (ba adp 75) died on Jan. 14, at age 69. She earned her BFA in painting with top honors from the Pacifc Northwest College of Art in Portland in 1991. Her art is represented by the Augen Gallery of Portland, Ore. Jean Wassell (ma g-c 79) died on Aug. 6, 2012. Jean was a tireless advocate for voiceless and underserved populations. She was a lifelong activist who spent her life fghting for social justice.muriel Wiessner (ba adp 66), an intrepid community organizer, animal lover and avid skier, died on Nov. 21, 2010, at age 95. Muriel was instrumental in the banning of billboards in Vermont in 1968, working to pass the law that gave scenic beauty a higher priority than commercial roadside messages. After a life dedicated to conservation, Muriel donated her land to the Stowe Land Trust, preserving it for future generations. nancy nan dunn Wolcott (ba adp 74, ma ggp 90) died at age 90 on Jan. 8, after a life of varied pursuits: as a mother of six, a nurse, an organizer of 4H Clubs, a school volunteer, a member of The Voluntaires singing group, and a world traveler. She attended Goddard and UVM late in life and earned her PhD from The Union For Experimenting Colleges and Universities in 1978. former Education faculty Member Kenneth l. Bergstrom Dies at 64| inmemoriam |

enneth Bergstrom passed away on Feb. 1, following a long illness. ken taught during the 1990s at both goddard and union institute and University. He loved doing Courage work and facilitated years of Courage to Teach retreat cycles.He lived in massachusetts until coming to Vermont in 1967 to earn his BA at Middlebury College. He later earned an MEd and Certifcate of Advanced Graduate Study at the University of Vermont, and a doctoral degree in leadership and policy Studies. He taught middle grades in Vermont schools for 15 years and was a founding member of the Vermont Middle Grades Professional Development Collaborative. Throughout his career, Ken published many articles and book chapters. He was generous with both his time and resources, and he was always there to help a neighbor, colleague, friend or family member in need. He volunteered with Hospice Programs for many years, and also belonged to a mens group, which was a great source of strength for him.Ken lived a life full of love for his family, many beloved friends, colleagues and students. He leaves a lasting impression on everyone who has known him and will be greatly missed.32 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013walter Butts died peacefully at home on easter sunday after a brief battle with cancer. Walter was New Hampshires Poet Laureate and an advisor at Goddard. While we will dearly miss the man himself, we are fortunate to be able to present an interview that Walter gave just a few weeks before his death. In it, he talks about his early infuences, shares writing advice, and proclaims that poetry is essential to the human condition.editor: do you remember your frst poem? how old were you when you wrote it?WB: Both my parents were avid readers, and as a child I was exposed to both classic and contemporary literature. I remember reading Whitman early on, which eventually led me to Emerson, Melville, and other writers. I dont remember those poems I wrote in early childhood, but when my father passed away when I was 19, that memory of course stayed with me, and eventually I wrote a poem about the event, which led to several other narrative/lyric poems.

editor: who or what most inspires and infuences you in your writing?WB: I think of poetry as an assimilation of circumstances between the poet and the natural world. Paying attention to ones environment and place in it can lead to imaginative leaps that might not have occurred otherwise. While Ive always been an eclectic reader, probably my most signifcant literary infuence has been the poet Richard Hugo, whom I began corresponding with in the 1970s. His work was the subject of my graduate thesis, Paradox and Authenticity in the Confessional Style: The Self as Persona. Other poets who have informed my work over the years include William Matthews, Philip Levine, B. H. Fairchild, Emily Dickinson, Sharon Olds, and too many others to include here. And of course, advising in the BFA in Writing Program at Goddard ofers ongoing inspiration and helps sustain my own writing, which Im very grateful for. editor: what writing advice do you most often give to your students?WB: Read across a broad range of literature to inform your own choices. Be willing to follow the poem beyond your original intent, toward some new discovery through revision. Pay careful attention to word choice. Think about how language, diction, syntax and form might function in your work. editor: do you have a favorite advising moment? WB: Ive had so many revelatory advising moments it would be difcult to select one. For me, those moments most occur when, in conversation with a student their enthusiasm for whatever topic were discussing is obvious, as is their passion for writing and genuine engagement with the individualized learning process. Their writing truly matters to them!

editor: what do you love about advising at Goddard? what are the challenges?WB: I love the opportunity to interact both formally and informally with students. The residency provides a rare opportunity for students and faculty to form a unique community, Poetry will always be essentialA life Well livedwalter Butts was born in upstate new York and most recently lived in Manchester, N.H., with his wife, the poet S Stephanie. He was an associate professor of english at Hesser College for 11 years and taught at Goddard for fve years. He will be missed by his daughter Amy and her husband Chris Brand, his beloved granddaughters Chloe and Catherine edwards and riley Brand of Rochester, NY, and by many poets, artists, students, friends and admirers. PuBliCATiONS Cathedral of Nervous Horses: New & Selected Poems Radio Time Sunday Evening at the Stardust Caf Movies in a Small Town Assorted chapbookshONORS poetry winner at the 2011 new england Book Festival Winner of the 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book prize Finalist for the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in poetry from the university of California/Fresno Recipient, Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award Recipient, two Pushcart Prize nominationsleading to sustainable one-on-one dialogue during the semester. Challenges include occasional breakdowns in communications and packet submission exchanges.editor: what do you think is the role of a poet in todays world?WB: I agree with Keats that poetry should be an ongoing soul-making task. If thats the case, poetry will always be essential to the struggles and joy of the human condition. CWIn Remembrance: Walter ButtsFaculty Member, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing and Individualized Bachelor of Arts Programs September 12, 1944 March 31, 2013CloCkworks spring | summer 2013 33WorldGoddard in theBY MEGAN SANDBERG-ZAKIAN (MFAIA 11)I always knew i wanted to make a consistent living as an artist with a serious, professional career in mainstream American theater. A lot of people in my feld advised me to seek assistantships on Broadway, but I was not interested in moving to New York, traveling constantly, getting an agent, or working with famous people.when i graduated from Goddard in 2011, I was struggling as a freelance director, and I wondered if I should take that advice. However, my Goddard education taught me to tolerate uncertainty, to fnd community in unexpected ways, and to value process. I was also infnitely blessed to work with faculty advisors Kira Obolensky, Jackie Hayes, Ju-Pong Lin, and Anne de Marken, who helped me work more lightly and nimbly, stepping away from some of the ponderousness i had previously associated with making theater. my time at goddard reinforced that its possible to fnd joy not only in my own art practice, but also in being a sensitive and passionate audience member, critic, colleague, administrator, mentor, subscriber, donor, co-conspirator, advocate, agitator, or dinner party hostess. The summer after graduation, I received the Theater Communications Group (TCG) Future Leaders Fellowship a two-year grant (with salary and benefts!) to work with the underground railway Theater in Cambridge, Mass. one of the best parts of the award has been the opportunity to connect with other grant recipients around the country through TCG, the national organization for the American theater. It is inspiring to witness the many unique ways that other young artistic leaders are forging their paths. I am proud that together we are leading the charge toward a more diverse and inclusive theater feld. we are also organizing ourselves through google docs and conference calls, another great skill i learned at goddard! As I come to the close of my grant period this spring, im not even tempted to consider moving to new York. Im very grateful for the consistently vivid and meaningful reverberations of the MFAIA program in my life, and I look forward to continuing my connection with goddard for years to come. CWmegan sandberg-Zakian (mfaia 11), at left, is a theater-maker and current recipient of a theater communications group future leaders grant to spend two seasons at central square theater in cambridge, mass., collaborating on a constellation of development and production projects engaging artists and audiences. i am interested in how stories that are frequently told and re-told may shape civic and community life, says megan. in moments when our community experiences intractability, viciousness or despair, how can our narratives be re-framed or expanded to support movement, dialogue and vitality? learn more about megan at megansz.com.leading the Wayinterdisciplinary arts alumna receives fellowship to produce theater connecting social justice and the arts to the community.fRoM ThE DIRECToRS ChAIR Scenes from plays directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian. From left: the Boston premiere of In the Red and Brown Water at Company One; Danny Bryck in No Room For Wishing, a docu-play about Occupy Boston, at Central Square Theater and the Boston Center for the Arts; Kami Smith and Maurice Parent in The Mountaintop, about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at Underground Railway Theater in Cambridge, Mass.STEVEN WOLKIND SHAWN LACOUNT A.R. SINCLAIR PHOTOGRAPHY34 CloCkworks spring | summer 2013Goddard Gave To Me...Sixty-four years after graduating from Goddard College, I am still grateful for my education. Goddard is, and has always been, a progressive, experimenting college, pioneering programs such as the nation's frst low-residency adult degrees, programs for single mothers, and innovative partnerships. Goddard addresses the needs of students who are looking for education that is not cookie-cutter, but that integrates learning and livelihood.

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Supporting Goddard is an extension of my familys interest in progressive education. Thats why I continue to give to Goddards Fund for Experiments and New Initiatives, which my late husband Richard and I established.Join me in making a gift to Goddard. Use the envelope in this magazine or give online at www.goddard.edu/giving

20135Join us this fall to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Goddard College! This will be a good opportunity to reconnect with the entire Goddard community. Reminisce with old friends, and meet new ones.We are thrilled to welcome back all classes, graduates and non-graduates for this 150th Anniversary Homecoming Weekend. Get ready for homecoming activities such as: Historic campus tours Award ceremonies Farm-to-table meals Music and performances Storyphone showcase Gamelan concert Bread & Puppet Theater Workshops and much more! / GoddardCollege | @ GoddardCollegeFor more information or to register, visit goddard.edu/homecoming(Please note the reunion date has changed since our last issue!)